Rainier is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,457 people and just one neighborhood, Rainier is the 202nd largest community in Washington.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rainier is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.10% of the Rainier workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rainier is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rainier who work in office and administrative support (14.84%), sales jobs (7.69%), and management occupations (6.52%).
A relatively large number of people in Rainier telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.03% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Rainier is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rainier, the average commute to work is 32.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Rainier doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Rainier are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.68% of adults in Rainier have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Rainier in 2022 was $31,000, 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 $124,000 for a family of four. However, Rainier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rainier is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rainier home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rainier residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rainier include German, Irish, English, Danish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Rainier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish 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 Rainier are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.8% of the neighborhoods in America. 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.
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, 29.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.2%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Rainier, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (30.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.0%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.