Flagstaff is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 53,137 people and 15 constituent neighborhoods, Flagstaff is the 13th largest community in Arizona.

Flagstaff is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Flagstaff is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flagstaff who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.59%), sales jobs (11.43%), and teaching (10.08%).

In addition, Flagstaff is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Flagstaff culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Flagstaff really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Flagstaff every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Flagstaff. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Flagstaff benefits directly from this.

One of the benefits of Flagstaff is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.83 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Flagstaff is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Flagstaff Information and Demographics

The population of Flagstaff is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.43% of adults in Flagstaff have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Flagstaff in 2000 was $18,637, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $74,548 for a family of four.

Flagstaff is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Flagstaff home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Flagstaff is White, followed by Native American. Flagstaff also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.13% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Flagstaff include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Flagstaff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Navajo.