Anacortes
TODAY
Anacortes is a highly livable waterfront city with solid infrastructure and a wide range of health and social services. Over the years, citizens and public servants have worked hard to create a community that supports industry and the family-wage jobs it brings, while also guarding the island’s peerless natural resources. The past decade has seen major upgrades to all the city’s schools and construction of a new hospital, library, park facilities, roads, trails, waterlines and a police station/municipal court. The quality of life has been a magnet, particularly for the well-educated retirees who form a large percentage of the population. But it has also attracted industry, from the refineries that have been here 50 years to the thriving shipbuilding industry that has grown more recently. 10
| ANACORTES Newcomers Guide | 2010-2011
DEMOGRAPHICS AND CITY FACTS
Population: 24,557 in 2000, an estimated 16,640 in 2008 Persons younger than 5: 5.5 percent Persons 18 and over: 76.6 percent Persons 65 and older: 20.8 percent High school graduates: 89.3 percent Bachelor’s degree or higher: 27.8 percent Owner-occupied housing: 68.8 percent Source: U.S. Census Bureau and the Washington State Office of Financial Management, Forecasting Division
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