In addition, Flagstaff is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Flagstaff culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Flagstaff really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Flagstaff every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Flagstaff. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Flagstaff benefits directly from this.
Not only is Flagstaff a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Flagstaff is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Flagstaff a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.82 minutes getting to work every day.
Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Flagstaff. 52.79% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%.
The per capita income in Flagstaff in 2022 was $32,124, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,496 for a family of four. However, Flagstaff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Flagstaff is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Flagstaff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flagstaff residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Flagstaff also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.15% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Flagstaff include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Flagstaff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
