About Nine Mile Falls

Nine Mile Falls is a somewhat small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 7,500 people and just one neighborhood, Nine Mile Falls is the 107th largest community in Washington.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Nine Mile Falls is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Nine Mile Falls is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nine Mile Falls who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.43%), management occupations (10.90%), and sales jobs (9.91%).

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

One downside of living in Nine Mile Falls, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.89 minutes every day commuting to work.

Nine Mile Falls is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Nine Mile Falls isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.22% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Nine Mile Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Nine Mile Falls Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Nine Mile Falls 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: 30.23% of adults in Nine Mile Falls have a college degree.

The per capita income in Nine Mile Falls in 2000 was $20,065, which is upper middle income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,260 for a family of four. However, Nine Mile Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Nine Mile Falls is English.