Boise City is a relatively large city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 185,937 people and 33 constituent neighborhoods, Boise City is the largest community in Idaho.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Boise City is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Boise City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boise City who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.34%), sales jobs (11.64%), and management occupations (9.65%).

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

One of the benefits of Boise City is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.04 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.

Boise City Information and Demographics

The education level of Boise City citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 33.58% of adults in Boise City have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Boise City in 2000 was $22,696, which is wealthy relative to Idaho, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,784 for a family of four.

The people who call Boise City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Boise City is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Boise City include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, Scottish, Italian, and Swedish.

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