Prospect - Butte Falls is a very small town located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 2,769 people and just one neighborhood, Prospect - Butte Falls is the 124th largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some towns, Prospect - Butte Falls isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Prospect - Butte Falls are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Prospect - Butte Falls is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prospect - Butte Falls who work in management occupations (15.03%), sales jobs (8.73%), and office and administrative support (7.66%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 18.63% 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.
In Prospect - Butte Falls, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.96 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Prospect - Butte Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Prospect - Butte Falls who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.93% of the adults in Prospect - Butte Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Prospect - Butte Falls in 2022 was $32,526, which is middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,104 for a family of four. However, Prospect - Butte Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Prospect - Butte Falls is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Prospect - Butte Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prospect - Butte Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Prospect - Butte Falls include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Prospect - Butte Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.
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 96.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.7% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Oregon, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Oregon.
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, 23.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 2.1% 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 Prospect - Butte Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.4% 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, 33.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Prospect - Butte Falls, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (44.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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.