Drain is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,194 people and just one neighborhood, Drain is the 183rd largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some cities, Drain isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Drain are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Drain is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Drain who work in sales jobs (18.75%), office and administrative support (11.11%), and personal care services (10.65%).
Also of interest is that Drain has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Drain has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Drain a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Drain is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Drain, the average commute to work is 35.15 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Drain doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Drain with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Drain in 2022 was $25,711, which is low income relative to Oregon, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,844 for a family of four. However, Drain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Drain is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Drain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drain residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Drain include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Drain 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Drain is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in OR, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.2% of the neighborhoods in Oregon. If you are considering retiring to Oregon, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 2.3% have Native American 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 Drain are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% 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, 29.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.9%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households.
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 Drain, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (70.4%) 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 (19.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.