Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,074 people and just one neighborhood, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is the 218th largest community in Washington.
Unlike some towns, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach who work in maintenance occupations (23.06%), sales jobs (22.13%), and office and administrative support (11.47%).
Also of interest is that Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.44% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Another notable thing is that Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
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, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.
Being a small town, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.41% of adults 25 and older in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach have a college degree.
The per capita income in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach in 2022 was $28,815, which is lower middle income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,260 for a family of four. However, Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America. is a neighborhood that is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Many times, such places have amenities that bring locals and visitors to the waterfront for recreational activities or to check out the scenery. In some densely populated areas that are less financially well-off, the neighborhood waterfront can be relatively industrial and less open to recreation. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 55.2%, which is higher than 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, one of the most interesting things about the neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 55.4% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 56.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (53.0%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 28.0% have Irish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 47.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 11.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.7%).
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 Copalis Beach - Pacific Beach, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (28.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (26.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.