Nine Mile Falls is a medium-sized town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 12,698 people and three associated neighborhoods, Nine Mile Falls is the largest community in Washington. Housing costs in Nine Mile Falls 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.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Nine Mile Falls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Nine Mile Falls is a town of professionals, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Nine Mile Falls who work in management occupations (14.47%), teaching (7.00%), and office and administrative support (6.17%). Also of interest is that Nine Mile Falls has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Nine Mile Falls telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.15% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Nine Mile Falls 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, Nine Mile Falls really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Nine Mile Falls 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. 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!) Nine Mile Falls 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. Nine Mile Falls has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nine Mile Falls than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nine Mile Falls may be for you. In Nine Mile Falls, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.24 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. The citizens of Nine Mile Falls are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.28% of adults in Nine Mile Falls having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Nine Mile Falls in 2022 was $40,430, which is middle income relative to Washington, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,720 for a family of four. However, Nine Mile Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Nine Mile Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nine Mile Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Nine Mile Falls include German, English, Irish, Russian, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Nine Mile Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Spanish.
