Spokane is a relatively large city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 230,160 people and 75 associated neighborhoods, Spokane is the second largest community in Washington.Spokane is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Spokane is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spokane who work in office and administrative support (11.52%), sales jobs (9.36%), and management occupations (9.16%). Also of interest is that Spokane has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.99% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. In terms of college education, Spokane is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.71% of adults in Spokane have a college degree. The per capita income in Spokane in 2022 was $36,513, which is middle income relative to Washington, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,052 for a family of four. However, Spokane contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Spokane is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Spokane home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spokane residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spokane include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Spokane is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
