Umatilla is a somewhat small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 7,630 people and just one neighborhood, Umatilla is the 71st largest community in Oregon.
When you are in Umatilla, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.66% of Umatilla’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Umatilla is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Umatilla who work in office and administrative support (9.22%), business and financial occupations (7.09%), and sales jobs (7.04%).
Umatilla is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Umatilla is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.34% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Umatilla in 2022 was $23,232, which is low income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,928 for a family of four. However, Umatilla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Umatilla is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Umatilla home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Umatilla residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Umatilla also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.62% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Umatilla include German, English, Irish, French, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Umatilla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 5.7% have Norwegian 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 Umatilla are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.3% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 18.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 67.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Umatilla, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.2%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (5.7%), among others. In addition, 10.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (42.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.7%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.