Bainbridge Island is a medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Washington. With a population of 20,308 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Bainbridge Island is the 50th largest community in Washington.

Bainbridge Island is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bainbridge Island is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bainbridge Island who work in management occupations (13.60%), sales jobs (12.17%), and office and administrative support jobs (7.92%).

Of important note, Bainbridge Island is also a city of artists. Bainbridge Island has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bainbridge Island's character.

Also of interest is that Bainbridge 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: 12.00% 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, Bainbridge 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, Bainbridge 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, Bainbridge Island really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bainbridge 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 city is also nautical, which means that parts of Bainbridge 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 Bainbridge Island, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 46.00 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Bainbridge Island does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Bainbridge Island Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Bainbridge Island is a pretty powerful place. 60.06% of the adults in Bainbridge Island have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Bainbridge Island in 2000 was $37,482, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,928 for a family of four. However, Bainbridge Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Bainbridge Island is English. Some people also speak Spanish.