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Mabton, WA

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Overview


Mabton is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,932 people and just one neighborhood, Mabton is the 220th largest community in Washington. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mabton, 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 Mabton, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mabton’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mabton does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $50,000.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Mabton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.61% of Mabton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mabton is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mabton who work in farm management occupations (30.90%), healthcare suport services (9.84%), and maintenance occupations (6.35%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The population of Mabton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.01% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Mabton in 2018 was $16,478, which is low income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,912 for a family of four. However, Mabton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mabton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mabton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Mabton, accounting for 95.55% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Mabton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mabton include Italian, European, English, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.

Mabton also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 33.58%.

The most common language spoken in Mabton is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Langs. of India.

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.

Occupations

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 29.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 26.7% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.1% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.

In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 5.8% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.5% of America's neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 90.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 82.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Mabton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 35.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.0% 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, 29.6% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 82.9% of households. Some people also speak English (17.1%).

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 Mabton, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (90.9%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (1.4%). In addition, 36.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (16.1%) . 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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