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Albany is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 56,828 people and 14 constituent neighborhoods, Albany is the 11th largest community in Oregon.
Albany is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Albany is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Albany who work in office and administrative support (13.90%), management occupations (8.23%), and sales jobs (7.73%).
Also of interest is that Albany has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The percentage of people in Albany who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.66% of adults in Albany have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Albany in 2018 was $28,802, which is middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,208 for a family of four. However, Albany contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Albany is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Albany home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Albany residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Albany also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Albany include German, English, Irish, European, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Albany is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.