Tukwila is a somewhat small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Washington. With a population of 17,204 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Tukwila is the 56th largest community in Washington.

Tukwila is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tukwila is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tukwila who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.16%), sales jobs (9.46%), and management occupations (8.28%).

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

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Tukwila are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

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

Tukwila Information and Demographics

The population of Tukwila overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Tukwila, 17.52% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Tukwila in 2000 was $22,354, which is upper middle income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,416 for a family of four.

Tukwila is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tukwila home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Tukwila is White, followed by African-American. Tukwila also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.68% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Tukwila include German, Irish, English, Yugoslavian, and Norwegian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Tukwila's cultural character, accounting for 26.23% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Tukwila 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 Tukwila is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, and African.