Lakewood is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 144,089 people and 28 constituent neighborhoods, Lakewood is the fourth largest community in Colorado.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lakewood is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lakewood is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lakewood who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.51%), sales jobs (11.71%), and management occupations (9.73%).

Also of interest is that Lakewood has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Lakewood is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Lakewood Information and Demographics

The citizens of Lakewood are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 32.82% of adults in Lakewood have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lakewood in 2000 was $25,575, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,300 for a family of four.

Lakewood is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lakewood home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lakewood is White, followed by Asian. Lakewood also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.38% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Lakewood include German, English, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Lakewood is English. Some people also speak Spanish.