Ocean Park 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 1,814 people and three associated neighborhoods, Ocean Park is the 225th largest community in Washington.
A relatively large number of people in Ocean Park telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.85% 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.
Another notable thing is that Ocean Park is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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, Ocean Park has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ocean Park a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Ocean Park 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. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.
Being a small town, Ocean Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Ocean Park citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.23% of adults 25 and older in Ocean Park have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ocean Park in 2022 was $37,221, 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 $148,884 for a family of four. However, Ocean Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ocean Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ocean Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ocean Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Ocean Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.39% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ocean Park include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Ocean Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.