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Outlook, WA

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Overview


Outlook is a tiny town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 317 people and just one neighborhood, Outlook is the 312th largest community in Washington.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Outlook, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 72.12% of Outlook’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Outlook is a town of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Outlook who work in farm management occupations (14.10%), sales jobs (8.65%), and maintenance occupations (8.33%).

Another important characteristic of Outlook is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Outlook 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. Outlook has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Outlook than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Outlook may be for you.

Outlook is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Outlook has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Outlook in 2022 was $18,999, which is low income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,996 for a family of four. However, Outlook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Outlook also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.16% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Outlook is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Outlook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Outlook, accounting for 100.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Outlook residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Outlook include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

Outlook also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 70.83%.

The most common language spoken in Outlook is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Outlook, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (73.5%) than found in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Occupations

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 98.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 86.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 65.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Outlook are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 73.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.9% 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, 39.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 7.1% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 65.0% of households. Some people also speak English (34.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Outlook, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (86.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report German roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 33.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (55.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (6.8%) and 6.1% 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.


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