Fairbanks is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alaska. With a population of 32,107 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Fairbanks is the second largest community in Alaska.

Fairbanks is a military town: the armed forces employs 17.09% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Retail are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 17.88% and 15.02% of the civilian workforce respectively.

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

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.99 minutes getting to work every day.

The percentage of people in Fairbanks who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.49% of adults in Fairbanks have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fairbanks in 2022 was $34,820, which is lower middle income relative to Alaska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,280 for a family of four. However, Fairbanks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Fairbanks is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fairbanks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fairbanks residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Fairbanks also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.08% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fairbanks include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Fairbanks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.