Bellevue is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Washington. With a population of 109,189 people and 22 constituent neighborhoods, Bellevue is the fifth largest community in Washington.

Bellevue is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 89.62% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bellevue is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bellevue who work in management occupations (14.33%), office and administrative support jobs (13.50%), and sales jobs (12.87%).

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

One thing noticeable about Bellevue, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Bellevue is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Bellevue a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Bellevue is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

One of the nice things about Bellevue is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Bellevue Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Bellevue is a pretty powerful place. 54.11% of the adults in Bellevue 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 Bellevue in 2000 was $36,905, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,620 for a family of four. However, Bellevue contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bellevue is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bellevue home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bellevue is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bellevue include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, Italian, and Swedish.

Bellevue also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.53%.

The most common language spoken in Bellevue is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.