About Three Lakes

Three Lakes is a very small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,499 people and just one neighborhood, Three Lakes is the 181st largest community in Washington.

Three Lakes is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Three Lakes is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Three Lakes who work in sales jobs (12.26%), office and administrative support jobs (12.18%), and management occupations (9.43%).

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

Because of many things, Three Lakes 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, Three Lakes really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Three Lakes 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 Three Lakes, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.04 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Three Lakes is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Three Lakes 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. 96.64% 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.

Three Lakes 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.

Three Lakes Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Three Lakes who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 22.20% of adults in Three Lakes have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Three Lakes in 2000 was $27,681, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,724 for a family of four. However, Three Lakes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Three Lakes home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Three Lakes is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Three Lakes include German, English, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, French, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Three Lakes is English.