Eagle Creek is a somewhat small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 6,124 people and just one neighborhood, Eagle Creek is the 80th largest community in Oregon.
Eagle Creek home prices are not only among the most expensive in Oregon, but Eagle Creek real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
When you are in Eagle Creek, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.36% of Eagle Creek’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Eagle Creek is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Eagle Creek who work in sales jobs (12.11%), office and administrative support (11.22%), and management occupations (8.69%).
Of important note, Eagle Creek is also a town of artists. Eagle Creek has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Eagle Creek’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.79% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) Eagle Creek 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. Eagle Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Eagle Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Eagle Creek may be for you.
In Eagle Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.40 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The citizens of Eagle Creek are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.16% of adults in Eagle Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Eagle Creek in 2022 was $36,753, which is upper middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,012 for a family of four. However, Eagle Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Eagle Creek is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Eagle Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eagle Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Eagle Creek also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.20% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Eagle Creek include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Eagle Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Eagle Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 98.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Significantly, 6.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% 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 Eagle Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% 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, 30.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 15.8% 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 89.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Eagle Creek, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.