Raleigh is a large city located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 276,579 people and 55 constituent neighborhoods, Raleigh is the second largest community in North Carolina.

Raleigh is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.02% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Raleigh is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Raleigh who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.72%), sales jobs (12.11%), and management occupations (10.76%).

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

Raleigh is a nice balance between life in a moderately big city and the interesting diversions and culture that come from having a big college student population. The thousands of students who arrive on campus every fall will find that Raleigh has plenty of amenities and opportunities for them, while residents of Raleigh enjoy the lectures, music, art, and economic trickle-down that colleges typically provide. "Town and Gown" complement each other in Raleigh!

Not only is Raleigh a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That's because Raleigh is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Raleigh a great place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun. In fact, Raleigh is one of the top larger cities in America for educated single professionals to flock.

For the size of the city, public transportation in Raleigh is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Raleigh, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

Raleigh Information and Demographics

The education level of Raleigh citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 44.85% of adults in Raleigh have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Raleigh in 2000 was $25,113, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,452 for a family of four.

Raleigh is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Raleigh home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Raleigh is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Raleigh include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scotch-Irish.

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