Kalamazoo is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Kalamazoo enrolled in college, Kalamazoo has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Not only is Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo 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.
The education level of Kalamazoo citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.05% of adults in Kalamazoo have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kalamazoo in 2022 was $27,514, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,056 for a family of four. However, Kalamazoo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kalamazoo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kalamazoo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kalamazoo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kalamazoo include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Kalamazoo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
