Mount Angel is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 3,429 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Angel is the 111th largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some cities, Mount Angel isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Angel are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Angel is a city of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Angel who work in management occupations (26.23%), farm management occupations (9.06%), and sales jobs (7.71%).
Mount Angel is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Mount Angel citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.36% of adults 25 and older in Mount Angel have a college degree.
The per capita income in Mount Angel in 2022 was $28,738, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,952 for a family of four. However, Mount Angel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Angel is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Angel home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Angel residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Mount Angel also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Angel include German, Irish, English, Russian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mount Angel is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Mount Angel, 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 8.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Russian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 2.3% have Portuguese 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 Mount Angel are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.4% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 48.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 17.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.2%), and 11.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.9%).
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 Mount Angel, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (30.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (23.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 12.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (33.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.2%) 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.