Juneau is a medium-sized coastal borough (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Alaska. With a population of 30,711 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Juneau is the second largest community in Alaska.

Juneau is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Juneau is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Juneau who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.19%), management occupations (9.97%), and sales jobs (7.60%).

Also of interest is that Juneau has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Juneau, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the borough.

One of the nice things about Juneau is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the borough are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Residents of the borough have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.36 minutes getting to work every day.

For the size of the borough, public transportation in Juneau is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Juneau, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

Juneau Information and Demographics

The education level of Juneau citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 36.02% of adults in Juneau have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Juneau in 2000 was $26,719, which is wealthy relative to Alaska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,876 for a family of four.

Juneau is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Juneau home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Juneau is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Juneau include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, European, Scottish, Italian, French, Scotch-Irish, and Swedish.

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