Shady Cove - Trail is a very small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 3,897 people and just one neighborhood, Shady Cove - Trail is the 101st largest community in Oregon.
Shady Cove - Trail is a blue-collar town, with 40.40% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Shady Cove - Trail is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Shady Cove - Trail who work in business and financial occupations (9.77%), healthcare (8.34%), and maintenance occupations (6.56%).
Also of interest is that Shady Cove - Trail has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.75% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Shady Cove - Trail has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shady Cove - Trail a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Shady Cove - Trail, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.29 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The citizens of Shady Cove - Trail are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.41% of adults in Shady Cove - Trail have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Shady Cove - Trail in 2022 was $29,245, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,980 for a family of four. However, Shady Cove - Trail contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shady Cove - Trail is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shady Cove - Trail home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shady Cove - Trail residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Shady Cove - Trail include Irish, German, English, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Shady Cove - Trail is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 26.1% have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Shady Cove - Trail are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.1%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Shady Cove - Trail, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (26.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (7.2%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.