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.
Eagle Creek is a blue-collar town, with 38.36% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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.
The town 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, Eagle Creek has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Eagle Creek a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Eagle Creek is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Eagle Creek, the average commute to work is 32.40 minutes, which is quite a bit 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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 8.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.