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.Brush Prairie is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Brush Prairie is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brush Prairie who work in management occupations (19.85%), office and administrative support (9.76%), and architecture and engineering (8.93%). 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. 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. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 44.03% 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. It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Brush Prairie 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. Brush Prairie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brush Prairie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brush Prairie may be for you. As is often the case in a small town, Brush Prairie doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of people in Brush Prairie who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.61% of adults in Brush Prairie have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Brush Prairie in 2022 was $53,634, which is upper middle income relative to Washington, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $214,536 for a family of four. However, Brush Prairie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Brush Prairie is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. 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 Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brush Prairie include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Brush Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Other Indo-European.
