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Lyons, OR

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Overview


Lyons is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,203 people and just one neighborhood, Lyons is the 181st largest community in Oregon.

Lyons home prices are not only among the most expensive in Oregon, but Lyons real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lyons is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.04% of the Lyons workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lyons is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyons who work in management occupations (15.03%), office and administrative support (10.95%), and sales jobs (7.05%).

Also of interest is that Lyons 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 Lyons telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.06% 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

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!) Lyons 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. Lyons has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lyons than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lyons may be for you.

Being a small city, Lyons does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Lyons are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.69% of adults in Lyons have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Lyons in 2018 was $42,373, which is wealthy relative to Oregon, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $169,492 for a family of four. However, Lyons contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lyons home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lyons residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Lyons include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swiss.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 1.3% have Finnish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% 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 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Lyons are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% 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, 49.0% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.2%), and 12.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).

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 Lyons, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (71.3%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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