About Fox Island

Fox Island is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,803 people and just one neighborhood, Fox Island is the 174th largest community in Washington.

Fox Island is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.47% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fox Island is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fox Island who work in sales jobs (15.06%), management occupations (14.01%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.99%).

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.93% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Fox Island is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Fox Island is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Fox Island really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fox Island perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Fox Island are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

One downside of living in Fox Island is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fox Island, the average commute to work is 41.88 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Fox Island is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Fox Island Information and Demographics

The population of Fox Island 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: 40.23% of adults in Fox Island have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fox Island in 2000 was $32,533, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,132 for a family of four. However, Fox Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fox Island home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fox Island is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fox Island include German, English, Norwegian, Irish, Italian, Swedish, French, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Fox Island is English.