Kalama is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 3,043 people and two associated neighborhoods, Kalama is the 181st largest community in Washington. Much of the housing stock in Kalama was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Kalama economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Kalama, where the median household income is $100,600.00.

Being a small city, Kalama does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The percentage of adults in Kalama who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.97% of the adults in Kalama have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kalama in 2018 was $45,813, which is upper middle income relative to Washington, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $183,252 for a family of four. However, Kalama contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kalama is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kalama home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kalama residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kalama also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kalama include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Finnish.

The most common language spoken in Kalama is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.