Cle Elum is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,211 people and just one neighborhood, Cle Elum is the 212th largest community in Washington.
Unlike some cities, Cle Elum isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cle Elum are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cle Elum is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cle Elum who work in management occupations (14.37%), maintenance occupations (9.64%), and office and administrative support (9.26%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.98% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) Cle Elum 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. Cle Elum has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cle Elum than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cle Elum may be for you.
Being a small city, Cle Elum does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Cle Elum are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.67% of adults in Cle Elum have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Cle Elum in 2022 was $39,050, which is middle income relative to Washington, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,200 for a family of four. However, Cle Elum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cle Elum is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cle Elum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cle Elum residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Cle Elum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.97% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cle Elum include European, German, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Cle Elum 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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 22.8% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 2.6% have Welsh ancestry.
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 Cle Elum are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 30.6% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.0%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
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 Cle Elum, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (65.5%) 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 (9.7%) and 9.6% 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.