Astoria Navy Heights
Navy Heights is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Astoria, Oregon.
Navy Heights real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Navy Heights neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Did you know that the Navy Heights neighborhood has more Eastern European and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 1.5% have Finnish ancestry.
Navy Heights is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Navy Heights neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in the fields of farming, fishing or timber harvesting. With 4.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighbors in the Navy Heights neighborhood in Astoria are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. This neighborhood has an income lower than 73.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
In the Navy Heights neighborhood, 30.4% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.8%), and 16.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
In the Navy Heights neighborhood in Astoria, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (11.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.4%) , and residents who report English roots (6.8%) , and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (5.6%) , along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.2%), among others. In addition, 12.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
The most common language spoken in the Navy Heights neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.1%).
