LINQ where or filter c#

Question

I have a collection being returned by a web service. A property of this collection is \"StatusCode\" which is a string value that can be anywhere from 0 to 5 (don\'t ask me why

Answer 1

var wo = from q in workOrders where int.Parse(w.StatusCode) < 3 select w;

Is a cleaner way to do the LINQ query, at least.