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Columbia City, OR

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Overview


Columbia City is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,943 people and just one neighborhood, Columbia City is the 151st largest community in Oregon.

Housing costs in Columbia City are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Oregon.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Columbia City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Columbia City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Columbia City is a city of professionals, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Columbia City who work in management occupations (12.47%), office and administrative support (8.14%), and teaching (7.63%).

Also of interest is that Columbia City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Columbia City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.77% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Columbia City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.59 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The education level of Columbia City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.33% of adults in Columbia City have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Columbia City in 2018 was $41,710, which is wealthy relative to Oregon, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,840 for a family of four. However, Columbia City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Columbia City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Columbia City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Columbia City include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Northern European.

The most common language spoken in Columbia City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Columbia City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 1.1% have Finnish 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 Columbia City are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 33.3% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.5%), and 16.4% 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 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Columbia City, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (45.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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