Vernonia is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 2,417 people and just one neighborhood, Vernonia is the 137th largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Vernonia is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Vernonia is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Vernonia who work in office and administrative support (14.02%), architecture and engineering (11.84%), and sales jobs (9.66%).
Also of interest is that Vernonia has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Vernonia telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.23% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Vernonia’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Vernonia is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Vernonia, the average commute to work is 40.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The citizens of Vernonia are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.02% of adults in Vernonia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Vernonia in 2022 was $35,902, which is upper middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,608 for a family of four. However, Vernonia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Vernonia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vernonia residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Vernonia include English, German, Irish, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Vernonia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 36.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish 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 Vernonia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.3% 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, 35.7% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 17.2% 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 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 Vernonia, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (53.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.