Kahlotus is a tiny city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 138 people and just one neighborhood, Kahlotus is the 326th largest community in Washington.
Kahlotus is a blue-collar town, with 40.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kahlotus is a city of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Kahlotus who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (10.17%), art, media, and design (10.17%), and teaching (10.17%).
Of important note, Kahlotus is also a city of artists. Kahlotus has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Kahlotus’s character.
In addition, many people in Kahlotus have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.47% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Kahlotus’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Kahlotus 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. Kahlotus has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kahlotus than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kahlotus may be for you.
One downside of living in Kahlotus, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.33 minutes every day commuting to work.
Kahlotus is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Kahlotus has a very low overall level of education: only 6.86% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Kahlotus in 2022 was $29,291, which is lower middle income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,164 for a family of four. However, Kahlotus contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kahlotus is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kahlotus home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kahlotus residents report their race to be White. Kahlotus also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kahlotus include Irish, German, English, Norwegian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Kahlotus is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Kahlotus, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 6.2% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Washington, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Washington.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 3.5% have Scots-Irish 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 Kahlotus are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.8% 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 79.3% of America'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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.9%), and 12.8% in manufacturing and laborer 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 71.0% 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 Kahlotus, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.9%), among others. In addition, 23.6% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (64.6%) 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 (20.7%) and 7.0% 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.