Whitman County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level between 2 and 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Moderate Potential
Air pollution and air quality trends (lower is better)
AQI
Ozone
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2007 was 14.0. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 23.9 miles away from the city center.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 1.1%
(1.1% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 0.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
| This town: | 2.5 people | | Washington: | 2.4 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This town: | 74.1% | | Whole state: | 65.6% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This town: | 0.6% | | Whole state: | 6.1% |
No gay or lesbian households reported
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Oakesdale, WA
Oakesdale compared to Washington state average:
- Median household income below state average.
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Unemployed percentage significantly below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age significantly above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Renting percentage significantly below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in significantly above state average.
- House age significantly above state average.
- Number of college students significantly below state average.
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Banks with branches in Oakesdale (2011 data):
- Bank of Fairfield: Oakesdale Branch at 114 W. Steptoe Avenue, branch established on 2011/08/09. Info updated 2006/11/03: Bank assets: $127.0 mil, Deposits: $113.1 mil, headquarters in Fairfield, WA, positive income, Agricultural Specialization, 9 total offices, Holding Company: Fairfield Financial Holdings Corp.
Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (27%)
- Wood (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (2%)
Religion statistics for Oakesdale (based on Whitman County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 33.46%
| Here |  | 33.5% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Catholic Church | LDS (Mormon) Church | United Methodist Church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Charismatic Churches Independent |
| Adherents | 31.0% | 11.0% | 8.5% | 7.8% | 6.6% |
| Congregations | 14.5% | 7.2% | 10.1% | 5.8% | 1.4% |
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| Name | Assemblies of God | United Church of Christ | American Baptist Churches in the USA | Southern Baptist Convention | Other |
| Adherents | 5.6% | 3.7% | 3.6% | 3.5% | 18.8% |
| Congregations | 7.2% | 5.8% | 5.8% | 2.9% | 39.1% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 12 | Whitman County: | 2.94 / 10,000 pop. | | Washington: | 2.06 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 3 | Whitman County: | 0.74 / 10,000 pop. | | Washington: | 1.18 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 8 | Whitman County: | 1.96 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 2.67 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 32 | Here: | 7.85 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 8.26 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | This county: | 5.4% | | Washington: | 7.7% |
Adult obesity rate: | Whitman County: | 24.1% | | Washington: | 25.7% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate: | This county: | 8.1% | | State: | 13.9% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Other Government Administration |
1 | $2,358 | $28,296 | 6 | $484 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
1 | $2,444 | $29,328 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $1,290 |
| Water Supply |
1 | $2,288 | $27,456 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
3 | $7,090 | $28,360 | 7 | $1,774 |
Oakesdale government finances in 2002:
- Bond Fund - Cash & Deposits: $12,000 ($28.44)
- Charges - Sewerage: $67,000 ($158.77)
- Construction - General: $26,000 ($61.61)
Regular Highways: $20,000 ($47.39)
- Current Operations - Financial Administration: $83,000 ($196.68)
Sewerage: $59,000 ($139.81)
Water Utilities: $56,000 ($132.70)
General - Other: $48,000 ($113.74)
Regular Highways: $43,000 ($101.90)
Police Protection: $28,000 ($66.35)
Central Staff Services: $10,000 ($23.70)
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $6,000 ($14.22)
Judicial and Legal Services: $4,000 ($9.48)
General Public Buildings: $2,000 ($4.74)
Fire Protection: $1,000 ($2.37)
- General - Interest on Debt: $7,000 ($16.59)
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - Fire Protection: $7,000 ($16.59)
- Local Intergovernmental - All Other: $35,000 ($82.94)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $220,000 ($521.33)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $187,000 ($443.13)
- Long Term Debt Issue, Unspecified - Other NEC: $47,000 ($111.37)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $47,000 ($111.37)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Water Utilities: $213,000 ($504.74)
Other, NEC: $164,000 ($388.63)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $23,000 ($54.50)
Water Utilities: $7,000 ($16.59)
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $37,000 ($87.68)
Interest Earnings: $28,000 ($66.35)
- Other Capital Outlay - Fire Protection: $7,000 ($16.59)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $574,000 ($1360.19)
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $61,000 ($144.55)
- Sinking Fund - Cash & Deposits: $181,000 ($428.91)
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $9,000 ($21.33)
General Support: $4,000 ($9.48)
All Other: $1,000 ($2.37)
- Tax - Property: $127,000 ($300.95)
Public Utilities: $33,000 ($78.20)
Total General Sales: $21,000 ($49.76)
NEC: $7,000 ($16.59)
Other Selective Sales: $2,000 ($4.74)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $80,000 ($189.57)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $10,000 ($23.70)
13.88% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($26,185 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 13.88% | | Washington average: | 7.86% |
1.43% of residents moved from foreign countries ($489 average AGI)| Whitman County: | 1.43% | | Washington average: | 0.26% |
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
14.93% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($28,516 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 14.93% | | Washington average: | 7.07% |
0.33% of residents moved to foreign countries ($344 average AGI)| Whitman County: | 0.33% | | Washington average: | 0.16% |
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Oakesdale:
- KMAX (840 AM; 10 kW; COLFAX, WA; Owner: PALOUSE COUNTRY, INC.)
- KGA (1510 AM; 50 kW; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KQQQ (1150 AM; 25 kW; PULLMAN, WA; Owner: RADIO PALOUSE, INC.)
- KXLY (920 AM; 20 kW; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: SPOKANE RADIO, INC.)
- KMJY (700 AM; 10 kW; NEWPORT, WA; Owner: JAMES E. AND HELEN G. STARGEL)
- KQNT (590 AM; 5 kW; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KJRB (790 AM; 5 kW; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KVNI (1080 AM; 10 kW; COEUR D' ALENE, ID; Owner: QUEENB RADIO, INC.)
- KTBI (810 AM; daytime; 50 kW; EPHRATA, WA; Owner: TACOMA BROADCASTERS, INCORPORATED)
- KWSU (1250 AM; 5 kW; PULLMAN, WA; Owner: WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY)
- KTRW (970 AM; 5 kW; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: KTRW, LLC)
- KDRK (1050 AM; 5 kW; DISHMAN, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KAQQ (1280 AM; 5 kW; SPOKANE, WA)
Strongest FM radio stations in Oakesdale:
- KIXZ-FM (96.1 FM; OPPORTUNITY, WA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KDRK-FM (93.7 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KPBX-FM (91.1 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: SPOKANE PUBLIC RADIO, INC.)
- KMBI-FM (107.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: THE MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO)
- KRAO-FM (102.5 FM; COLFAX, WA; Owner: PALOUSE COUNTRY, INC.)
- KISC (98.1 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KHTR (104.3 FM; PULLMAN, WA; Owner: RADIO PALOUSE, INC.)
- KZZU-FM (92.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: QUEENB)
- KZBD (105.7 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KEYF-FM (101.1 FM; CHENEY, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KCDA (103.1 FM; POST FALLS, ID; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KSFC (91.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: SPOKANE PUBLIC RADIO)
- KKZX (98.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KEEH (104.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: UPPER COLUMBIA MEDIA ASSOCIATION)
- KEWU-FM (89.5 FM; CHENEY, WA; Owner: EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY)
- KXLY-FM (99.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: SPOKANE RADIO, INC.)
- KICR (102.3 FM; COEUR D'ALENE, ID; Owner: GREAT NORTHERN BROADCASTING, INC.)
- KYWL (103.9 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KHTQ (94.5 FM; HAYDEN, ID; Owner: QUEENB RADIO, INC.)
- KAGU (88.7 FM; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: GONZAGA UNIVERSITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION)
TV broadcast stations around Oakesdale:
- K59BW (Channel 59; BONNERS FERRY, ID; Owner: STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION (IEPBS))
- KREM-TV (Channel 2; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: KING BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KHQ-TV (Channel 6; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: KHQ, INCORPORATED)
- KAYU-TV (Channel 28; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: MOUNTAIN LICENSES, L.P.)
- KSPS-TV (Channel 7; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: SPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT #81)
- KSKN (Channel 22; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: KSKN TELEVISION, INC.)
- KGPX (Channel 34; SPOKANE, WA; Owner: PAXSON SPOKANE LICENSE, INC.)
- KWSU-TV (Channel 10; PULLMAN, WA; Owner: WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY)
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 8
Total length: 7 meters (23ft)
Total costs: $48,000
Total average daily traffic: 1,490
Total average daily truck traffic: 193
Total future (year 2027) average daily traffic: 1,922
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 2 - 2 Mi W (Lat: 47.122111 Lon: -117.274639), Call Sign: KNAA857, Licensee ID: L00093749
Assigned Frequencies: 154.490 MHz Grant Date: 08/10/1995, Expiration Date: 09/28/2000, Cancellation Date: 12/03/2000
Registrant: Edward Rambo, Oakesdale, WA 99158, Phone: (509) 285-5933 - 402 Washington St. (Lat: 47.128056 Lon: -117.244167), Call Sign: WPVM632
Assigned Frequencies: 43.7600 MHz Grant Date: 07/16/2002, Expiration Date: 07/16/2012, Certifier: Dennis Pfaff
Registrant: National License Corporation, 9050 Briarclift Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46256, Phone: (317) 849-5866, Email:
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 3 - Call Sign: W7KDV, Licensee ID: L01301756
Grant Date: 07/07/2007, Expiration Date: 09/03/2017
Registrant: Bruce F Ebert Sr, Oakesdale, WA 99158 - Call Sign: WB7NUE, Licensee ID: L00436218
Grant Date: 08/23/2006, Expiration Date: 11/20/2016, Certifier: Gerald J Harnois
Registrant: Gerald J Harnois, Box 255 W 403 Mc Coy, Oakesdale, WA 99158 - Call Sign: WB7NXF
Grant Date: 02/02/1988, Expiration Date: 02/02/1998, Cancellation Date: 02/03/2000
Registrant: Colleen E Johnson, 2nd & Mc Coy Box 252, Oakesdale, WA 99158
FAA Registered Aircraft: 3 - Aircraft: ENGINEERING & RESEARCH ERCOUPE 415-C (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 90 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR A&C75 SERIES (75 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 1245V , Serial Number: 1087, Year manufactured: 1946, Airworthiness Date: 12/26/1955
Registrant (Individual): Karen A Jeske, Po Box 291, Oakesdale, WA 99158 - Aircraft: SCHEMPP-HIRTH DISCUS B (Category: Land, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: None
N-Number: 19BE , Serial Number: 27, Year manufactured: 1985, Airworthiness Date: 12/13/2000
Registrant (Individual): Pamela Dabolt, Po Box 306, Oakesdale, WA 99158 - Aircraft: CESSNA U206 (Category: Land, Seats: 6, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 132 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 2139F , Serial Number: U206-0339, Year manufactured: 1965, Airworthiness Date: 02/10/1965
Registrant (Individual): Brian M Crow, Po Box 16, Oakesdale, WA 99158
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
| Most common first names in Oakesdale, WA among deceased individuals |
| Name | Count | Lived (average) |
| John | 9 | 75.0 years |
| Fred | 6 | 82.3 years |
| Frank | 6 | 79.0 years |
| Charles | 6 | 74.7 years |
| George | 4 | 80.5 years |
| Donald | 4 | 73.2 years |
| Richard | 4 | 74.8 years |
| William | 3 | 72.7 years |
| Harold | 3 | 78.7 years |
| Arthur | 3 | 73.3 years |
| Most common last names in Oakesdale, WA among deceased individuals |
| Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
| Brown | 6 | 74.6 years |
| Reed | 6 | 63.3 years |
| Hampton | 4 | 83.8 years |
| Hodges | 4 | 79.5 years |
| Bivins | 4 | 86.0 years |
| Miller | 4 | 76.7 years |
| Bongarts | 4 | 74.6 years |
| Hansen | 3 | 86.6 years |
| Jensen | 3 | 85.0 years |
| Crow | 3 | 89.6 years |
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