Drain is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,192 people and just one neighborhood, Drain is the 183rd largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some cities, Drain isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Drain are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Drain is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Drain who work in sales jobs (20.13%), office and administrative support (14.68%), and food service (7.97%).
Also of interest is that Drain has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Drain has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Drain a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Drain is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Drain, the average commute to work is 30.64 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Drain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Drain with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.47% of adults in Drain have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Drain in 2022 was $25,730, which is low income relative to Oregon, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,920 for a family of four. However, Drain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Drain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drain residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Drain include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Drain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Drain, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.1% of this neighborhood's residents have English 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 Drain are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.1% 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, 28.4% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.1%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% 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 Drain, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (4.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (18.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.