Tieton is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,638 people and just one neighborhood, Tieton is the 247th largest community in Washington.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tieton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.13% of the Tieton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tieton is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Tieton who work in farm management occupations (16.52%), food service (8.78%), and sales jobs (7.44%).
In addition, many people in Tieton have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
The citizens of Tieton have a very low rate of college education: just 6.46% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Tieton in 2022 was $17,670, which is low income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,680 for a family of four. However, Tieton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tieton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tieton 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 Tieton, accounting for 86.93% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tieton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Tieton include German, Irish, French, Scottish, and Italian.
In addition, Tieton has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (34.22%).
The most common language spoken in Tieton is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English 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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Tieton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% 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, 36.7% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 11.2% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (42.5%).
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 Tieton, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (45.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 15.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.