Lind - Washtucna is a very small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,792 people and just one neighborhood, Lind - Washtucna is the 226th largest community in Washington. Lind - Washtucna has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lind - Washtucna is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.37% of the Lind - Washtucna workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lind - Washtucna is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lind - Washtucna who work in management occupations (12.11%), maintenance occupations (8.81%), and office and administrative support (7.71%).
One downside of living in Lind - Washtucna, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.31 minutes every day commuting to work.
Lind - Washtucna is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Lind - Washtucna is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.33% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lind - Washtucna in 2022 was $27,159, which is low income relative to Washington, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,636 for a family of four. However, Lind - Washtucna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lind - Washtucna is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lind - Washtucna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lind - Washtucna residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Lind - Washtucna also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.99% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lind - Washtucna include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Lind - Washtucna 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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 47.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.1% of America.
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 96.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav 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 Lind - Washtucna 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 17.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 40.5% 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 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 (21.1%), and 8.6% 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 75.6% 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 Lind - Washtucna, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (28.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 10.9% 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.