Yoncalla is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,032 people and just one neighborhood, Yoncalla is the 187th largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some cities, Yoncalla isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Yoncalla are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Yoncalla is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yoncalla who work in office and administrative support (17.82%), food service (10.11%), and healthcare suport services (9.04%).
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Yoncalla is worth considering.
One downside of living in Yoncalla, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.37 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Yoncalla does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Yoncalla has a very low overall level of education: only 8.08% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Yoncalla in 2022 was $25,933, 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 $103,732 for a family of four. However, Yoncalla contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Yoncalla is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Yoncalla home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yoncalla residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Yoncalla include German, European, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Yoncalla is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
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 37.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.4% 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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 Yoncalla are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.4% 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 57.7% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.0%), and 16.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% 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 Yoncalla, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (69.1%) 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 (20.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.