Cougar’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Cougar 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. Cougar has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cougar than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cougar may be for you.
Cougar is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Cougar, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Cougar does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Cougar ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cougar in 2022 was $45,431, which is upper middle income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $181,724 for a family of four. However, Cougar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cougar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cougar residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cougar include Russian, German, European, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Cougar is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
