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.
When you are in Napavine, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.47% of Napavine’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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%).
The city 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, Napavine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Napavine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
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.
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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 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.
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.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.5%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. 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.