About Cascade-Fairwood

Cascade-Fairwood is a medium-sized town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 34,433 people and just one neighborhood, Cascade-Fairwood is the 24th largest community in Washington.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cascade-Fairwood is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cascade-Fairwood is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cascade-Fairwood who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.76%), sales jobs (12.42%), and management occupations (10.56%).

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

In addition, Cascade-Fairwood is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Cascade-Fairwood 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, Cascade-Fairwood really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cascade-Fairwood 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.

In Cascade-Fairwood, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.29 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Cascade-Fairwood Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Cascade-Fairwood 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: 31.31% of adults in Cascade-Fairwood have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cascade-Fairwood in 2000 was $25,752, which is upper middle income relative to Washington, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,008 for a family of four. However, Cascade-Fairwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The languages spoken by people in Cascade-Fairwood 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 Cascade-Fairwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, and Tagalog.