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Keno, OR

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Overview


Keno is a very small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,980 people and just one neighborhood, Keno is the 149th largest community in Oregon.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Keno is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.32% of the Keno workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Keno is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Keno who work in office and administrative support (20.05%), healthcare (8.56%), and sales jobs (6.26%).

Also of interest is that Keno has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Keno doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Keno who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.49% of the adults in Keno have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Keno in 2022 was $30,253, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,012 for a family of four. However, Keno contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Keno is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Keno home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Keno residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Keno include German, Scottish, Irish, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Keno is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 34.0% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

Car Ownership

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 41.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 1.5% have Austrian ancestry.

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 Keno are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 29.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% 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, 41.4% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 12.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.7%).

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 Keno, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Scottish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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