Welches is a very small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 3,203 people and just one neighborhood, Welches is the 118th largest community in Oregon.
Welches home prices are not only among the most expensive in Oregon, but Welches real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Welches is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Welches is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Welches who work in office and administrative support (15.68%), sales jobs (9.98%), and management occupations (9.07%).
Also of interest is that Welches has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Welches telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.18% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Welches 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. Welches has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Welches than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Welches may be for you.
One downside of living in Welches is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Welches, the average commute to work is 37.11 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Welches doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Welches citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.87% of adults in Welches have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Welches in 2022 was $45,916, which is wealthy relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $183,664 for a family of four. However, Welches contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Welches is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Welches home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Welches residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Welches include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Welches is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.9%, which is higher than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Swiss 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 and 1.9% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Welches are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% 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, 29.0% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 19.8% 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 97.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Spanish.
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 Welches, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (44.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (66.6%) 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 (12.0%) and 9.3% 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.