Mount Rainier is a somewhat small city located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 8,463 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Mount Rainier is the 132nd largest community in Maryland.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mount Rainier is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Rainier is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Rainier who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.05%), building maintenance and grounds keeping (7.12%), and management occupations (6.01%).

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

In addition, Mount Rainier 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.

One downside of living in Mount Rainier is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mount Rainier, the average commute to work is 35.14 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the city, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.

In Mount Rainier, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day even though Mount Rainier is a relatively small city. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Mount Rainier Information and Demographics

The education level of Mount Rainier citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 18.90% of adults in Mount Rainier have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mount Rainier in 2000 was $17,558, which is lower middle income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,232 for a family of four.

Mount Rainier is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Rainier home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mount Rainier is African-American, followed by White. Mount Rainier also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.41% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Rainier include African, Jamaican, and Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Mount Rainier's cultural character, accounting for 27.74% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in Mount Rainier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African.