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Napavine is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,140 people and just one neighborhood, Napavine is the 222nd largest community in Washington.
Occupations and Workforce
Napavine is a blue-collar town, with 37.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Napavine is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Napavine who work in office and administrative support (19.73%), food service (8.68%), and healthcare (6.08%).
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Napavine has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Napavine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Napavine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Napavine may be for you.
In Napavine, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.47 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Napavine is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.03% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Napavine in 2022 was $34,519, which is lower middle income relative to Washington, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,076 for a family of four. However, Napavine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Napavine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Napavine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Napavine residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Napavine include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Napavine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Napavine, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Car Ownership
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Napavine are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.3% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 40.9% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 13.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Napavine, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (5.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (43.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
