Canyonville - Riddle is a very small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 4,957 people and just one neighborhood, Canyonville - Riddle is the 90th largest community in Oregon.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Canyonville - Riddle is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.61% of the Canyonville - Riddle workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Canyonville - Riddle is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Canyonville - Riddle who work in office and administrative support (9.93%), sales jobs (8.51%), and food service (8.46%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.84% 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.
Being a small town, Canyonville - Riddle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Canyonville - Riddle, just 12.02% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Canyonville - Riddle in 2022 was $24,395, which is low income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,580 for a family of four. However, Canyonville - Riddle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Canyonville - Riddle is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Canyonville - Riddle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Canyonville - Riddle residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Canyonville - Riddle include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Canyonville - Riddle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 Canyonville - Riddle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.9% of U.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, 35.6% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.4%), and 12.9% 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 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Canyonville - Riddle, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report English roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.3%) 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 (18.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.