Brush Prairie is a very small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,749 people and two associated neighborhoods, Brush Prairie is the 189th largest community in Washington.
Housing costs in Brush Prairie are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Washington.
Of important note, Brush Prairie is also a town of artists. Brush Prairie has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Brush Prairie’s character.
Also of interest is that Brush Prairie has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 25.93% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Brush Prairie 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, Brush Prairie really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Brush Prairie perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Brush Prairie has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Brush Prairie a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Brush Prairie 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.
The overall education level of Brush Prairie citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.12% of adults in Brush Prairie have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Brush Prairie in 2022 was $50,436, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $201,744 for a family of four. However, Brush Prairie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Brush Prairie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brush Prairie residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Brush Prairie include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Brush Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Other Indo-European.