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Kalama, WA
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Living in Kalama



Kalama is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 3,043 people and two constituent 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 $87,500.00.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Kalama has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Kalama has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kalama than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kalama may be for you.

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 with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.64% of adults in Kalama have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kalama in 2018 was $42,871, which is upper middle income relative to Washington, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $171,484 for a family of four. However, Kalama contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kalama is a somewhat 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. Important ancestries of people in Kalama include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Norwegian.

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


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