About Fort Lee

Fort Lee is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 7,268 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Lee is the 118th largest community in Virginia.

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

The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Fort Lee, employing 67.87% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Public Service and Retail industries employ 25.42% and 16.67% of the civilian workforce, respectively.

One of the benefits of Fort Lee is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 11.72 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Fort Lee doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Fort Lee Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Fort Lee is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.34% of adults in Fort Lee have a college degree.

The per capita income in Fort Lee in 2000 was $12,448, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $49,792 for a family of four.

Fort Lee is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Lee home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fort Lee is African-American, followed by White. Fort Lee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.50% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Lee include German, Italian, Irish, and Jamaican.

The most common language spoken in Fort Lee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German.