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Maple Falls, WA

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Overview


Maple Falls is a tiny town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 291 people and just one neighborhood, Maple Falls is the 314th largest community in Washington.

Occupations and Workforce

Maple Falls is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 89.88% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Maple Falls is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Maple Falls who work in personal care services (50.60%), office and administrative support (23.21%), and business and financial occupations (10.12%).

Of important note, Maple Falls is also a town of artists. Maple Falls has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Maple Falls’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Maple Falls is worth considering.

One of the benefits of Maple Falls is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.77 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Maple Falls is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Maple Falls is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Maple Falls has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Maple Falls is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Maple Falls citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.91% of adults 25 and older in Maple Falls have a college degree.

The per capita income in Maple Falls in 2022 was $37,802, which is middle income relative to Washington, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,208 for a family of four.

The people who call Maple Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maple Falls residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Maple Falls include Scottish, Danish, German, Norwegian, and Scandinavian.

The most common language spoken in Maple Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 18.4% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 3.5% have Ukrainian 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 Maple Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.1% 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 63.6% 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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.0%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Vietnamese.

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 Maple Falls, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.5%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (6.5%), among others. In addition, 10.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (18.4%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (71.9%) 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 (15.8%) . 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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