Overview Pe Ell is a tiny town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 666 people and just one neighborhood, Pe Ell is the 289th largest community in Washington. Occupations and Workforce Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pe Ell is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pe Ell is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pe Ell who work in personal care services (12.50%), business and financial occupations (9.38%), and food service (8.93%). Also of interest is that Pe Ell has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Setting & Lifestyle The overall crime rate in Pe Ell is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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!) Pe Ell 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. Pe Ell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pe Ell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pe Ell may be for you. In Pe Ell, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.09 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Pe Ell 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. Pe Ell Demographics The citizens of Pe Ell have a very low rate of college education: just 9.40% 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 Pe Ell in 2022 was $32,252, which is lower middle income relative to Washington, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,008 for a family of four. However, Pe Ell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pe Ell is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pe Ell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pe Ell residents report their race to be White. Pe Ell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.19% of the town鈥檚 residents. Important ancestries of people in Pe Ell include Polish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and English. The most common language spoken in Pe Ell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.