Brush Prairie is a very small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,749 people and two associated neighborhoods, Brush Prairie is the 189th largest community in Washington.

Housing costs in Brush Prairie are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Washington.

Of important note, Brush Prairie is also a town of artists. Brush Prairie has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Brush Prairie’s character.

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

A relatively large number of people in Brush Prairie telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 25.93% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, Brush Prairie is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Brush Prairie really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Brush Prairie perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Brush Prairie has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Brush Prairie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brush Prairie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brush Prairie may be for you.

Brush Prairie is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The education level of Brush Prairie citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.12% of adults in Brush Prairie have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Brush Prairie in 2022 was $50,436, which is wealthy relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $201,744 for a family of four. However, Brush Prairie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Brush Prairie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brush Prairie residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Brush Prairie include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Brush Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Other Indo-European.