Columbus is a very large city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 933,263 people and 249 associated neighborhoods, Columbus is the largest community in Ohio.Columbus is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Columbus is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Columbus who work in office and administrative support (17.58%), management occupations (8.36%), and business and financial occupations (7.98%). Also of interest is that Columbus 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: 17.71% 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. In terms of college education, Columbus is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.92% of adults in Columbus have a college degree. The per capita income in Columbus in 2022 was $35,416, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,664 for a family of four. However, Columbus contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Columbus is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Columbus home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Columbus residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Columbus include German, English, Irish, Ethiopian, and Italian. Foreign born people are also an important part of Columbus's cultural character, accounting for 20.63% of the city’s population. The most common language spoken in Columbus is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
