Woonsocket is a medium-sized city located in the state of Rhode Island. With a population of 43,224 people and 14 constituent neighborhoods, Woonsocket is the sixth largest community in Rhode Island. Woonsocket has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Woonsocket is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Woonsocket is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woonsocket who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.26%), sales jobs (9.05%), and food service (5.65%).

Woonsocket Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Woonsocket with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 10.14% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Woonsocket in 2000 was $16,223, which is low income relative to Rhode Island, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $64,892 for a family of four.

Woonsocket is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Woonsocket home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Woonsocket is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Woonsocket include French Canadian, French, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The languages spoken by people in Woonsocket are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Woonsocket is English. Other important languages spoken here include French, Spanish, and Laotian.