About Cottage Lake

Cottage Lake is a medium-sized town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 24,299 people and just one neighborhood, Cottage Lake is the 42nd largest community in Washington.

Cottage Lake is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.56% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Cottage Lake is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottage Lake who work in management occupations (18.49%), sales jobs (13.41%), and office and administrative support jobs (9.79%).

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

In addition, Cottage Lake is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Cottage Lake is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Cottage Lake a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Cottage Lake has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Cottage Lake's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Being a small town, Cottage Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Cottage Lake Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Cottage Lake, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Cottage Lake is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 53.16% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Cottage Lake in 2000 was $39,763, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $159,052 for a family of four. However, Cottage Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cottage Lake home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cottage Lake is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cottage Lake include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, Italian, Swedish, Scottish, French, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Cottage Lake is English.