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Outlook, WA

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Overview


Outlook is a tiny town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 317 people and just one neighborhood, Outlook is the 312th largest community in Washington.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Outlook, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.87% of Outlook’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Outlook is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Outlook who work in office and administrative support (20.15%), teaching (17.87%), and maintenance occupations (6.46%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Outlook has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Outlook has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Outlook than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Outlook may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Outlook spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.76 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small town, Outlook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Outlook overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Outlook, 24.10% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Outlook in 2022 was $24,544, which is low income relative to Washington, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,176 for a family of four.

Outlook is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Outlook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Outlook, accounting for 100.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Outlook residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Outlook include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

In addition, Outlook has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (43.53%).

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Car Ownership

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 37.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 75.2% have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 63.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Outlook are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.7% 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, 40.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 5.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.3% of households. Some people also speak English (36.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Outlook, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (75.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 28.3% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (12.6%) . 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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