About Tanner

Tanner is a very small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,961 people and just one neighborhood, Tanner is the 169th largest community in Washington.

Unlike some towns , Tanner isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tanner are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tanner is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tanner who work in sales jobs (16.42%), management occupations (13.12%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.44%).

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

Tanner is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Tanner 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. 96.56% 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.

Tanner is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Tanner Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Tanner 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: 30.83% of adults in Tanner have a college degree.

The per capita income in Tanner in 2000 was $28,604, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,416 for a family of four. However, Tanner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Tanner is English.