Lake Stevens is a somewhat small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 6,484 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Lake Stevens is the 120th largest community in Washington.

Lake Stevens is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Stevens is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Stevens who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.92%), sales jobs (11.79%), and management occupations (9.48%).

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

One downside of living in Lake Stevens is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lake Stevens, the average commute to work is 30.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Lake Stevens is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Lake Stevens, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.35% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small city, Lake Stevens doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Lake Stevens Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Lake Stevens is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 20.26% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lake Stevens in 2000 was $22,943, which is upper middle income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,772 for a family of four. However, Lake Stevens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lake Stevens home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lake Stevens is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Stevens include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, Italian, Scottish, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Lake Stevens is English. Some people also speak Spanish.