Bingen - Trout Lake is a somewhat small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 6,108 people and just one neighborhood, Bingen - Trout Lake is the 128th largest community in Washington. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Bingen - Trout Lake, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Bingen - Trout Lake, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Bingen - Trout Lake’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Bingen - Trout Lake does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $93,056.00.
Bingen - Trout Lake home prices are not only among the most expensive in Washington, but Bingen - Trout Lake real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bingen - Trout Lake is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.94% of the Bingen - Trout Lake workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bingen - Trout Lake is a town of professionals, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bingen - Trout Lake who work in farm management occupations (16.08%), sales jobs (9.28%), and management occupations (8.17%).
Another important characteristic of Bingen - Trout Lake is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Also of interest is that Bingen - Trout Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 21.78% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Even though Bingen - Trout Lake is a smaller town, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
The overall education level of Bingen - Trout Lake citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.57% of adults in Bingen - Trout Lake have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bingen - Trout Lake in 2022 was $47,947, which is upper middle income relative to Washington, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $191,788 for a family of four. However, Bingen - Trout Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bingen - Trout Lake is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bingen - Trout Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bingen - Trout Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Bingen - Trout Lake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.89% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bingen - Trout Lake include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and European.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Bingen - Trout Lake's cultural character, accounting for 19.09% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Bingen - Trout Lake 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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 16.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 24 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Bingen - Trout Lake is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in WA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.6% of the neighborhoods in Washington. If you are considering retiring to Washington, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 5.6% have Swedish 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 Bingen - Trout Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.9% 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, 37.2% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 16.1% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
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 71.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Bingen - Trout Lake, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (5.6%), among others. In addition, 19.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (52.2%) 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 (9.6%) and 9.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.