Rainier is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,913 people and just one neighborhood, Rainier is the 153rd largest community in Oregon. Much of the housing stock in Rainier was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Rainier is a blue-collar town, with 44.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Rainier is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rainier who work in management occupations (12.24%), healthcare (8.57%), and office and administrative support (7.07%).
A relatively large number of people in Rainier telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.95% 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.
In terms of college education, Rainier is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.06% of adults 25 and older in Rainier have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rainier in 2022 was $29,692, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,768 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, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Rainier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Scandinavian languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 5.3% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Rainier are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.6% 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, 39.5% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.5%).
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 Rainier, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.7%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (33.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.