Warm Springs is a very small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 2,435 people and just one neighborhood, Warm Springs is the 134th largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Warm Springs is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Warm Springs is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Warm Springs who work in office and administrative support (15.37%), sales jobs (12.84%), and management occupations (9.66%).
Of important note, Warm Springs is also a town of artists. Warm Springs has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Warm Springs’s character.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Warm Springs rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.96% of adults 25 and older in Warm Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Warm Springs in 2022 was $21,970, which is low income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,880 for a family of four. However, Warm Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Warm Springs is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Warm Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Warm Springs residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Warm Springs include German, Italian, Scottish, Scandinavian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Warm Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 20.1% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.3%) than in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 77.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Warm Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% 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, 38.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (20.1%), and 18.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.1% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (8.0%).
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 Warm Springs, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (77.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.3%).
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 (55.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.4%) 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 (25.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.