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Spokane, Washington, is a city in the United States of America.
It is the largest city in Washington state and is home to about 2.3 million people.
About 40 percent of the population lives in urban areas.
The metro area includes Spokane, Spokane’s main downtown, and portions of rural areas along the north side of the city.
This is a very diverse area, with a variety of different ethnicities, ethnicities with a wide range of incomes, and even a small minority of people who are low-income.
The most common ethnicities are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Native American.
The region has a lot of diversity in its history, with Japanese being the oldest ethnic group in the state.
The city has been named the nation’s “best” city for 20 consecutive years.
In the 1990s, the area’s unemployment rate was almost 50 percent higher than the national average, and about one-third of Spokane’s population lived in poverty.
However, after a decade of growth, the unemployment rate has now fallen to around 12 percent.
The area’s economic growth and jobs are still very positive.
The Spokane metro area was named by Forbes magazine as the 10th-best place to live by U.S. News & World Report.
The population of Spokane is expected to grow by nearly 12 percent in the next five years.
The median household income in Spokane is $49,000, which is nearly $2,000 more than the city’s median income of $50,000.
Spokane is the only metro area in the country with a median household size of less than three people.
It also has the highest number of new residents per capita.
According to Census data, the city has one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.
In 2017, the crime rate in Spokane was 9.3 per 1,000 people, which was a low number compared to many other large metro areas in the U.K. The average monthly rent in Spokane, which varies by ZIP code, was $1,719.
In 2018, the median monthly rent was $2.24 per month, which made Spokane the second-most affordable place to rent a home in the area.
The unemployment rate in the city was 7.9 percent in 2018.
In Spokane, median income is $50k per year, and the median income for a family of four was $42,000 in 2018, which makes Spokane the eighth-lowest median income in the entire country.
A majority of the metro area’s jobs are in IT, and many people in the tech sector are people of color.
About 2 percent of Spokane households are people who identify as LGBTQ, according to Census Bureau data.
More than 4 percent of people are transgender, and approximately 15 percent are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Spokane also has one the highest rates of HIV in the region, and a high rate of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.
The highest percentage of people living in poverty is in the metropolitan area, where 9.5 percent of residents are poor.
About one-fourth of the region’s population lives below the poverty line, while about one in 10 people live below the national poverty line.
In 2016, the metro’s unemployment rates were 7.6 percent, 7.2 percent, and 6.4 percent, respectively.
The poverty rate is the percentage of households that have a household income below the federal poverty level.
The number of people in poverty in the metro is lower than the rate of the national population.
About 10 percent of adults in the Metro area live below poverty, while nearly 15 percent of metro residents live below 100 percent of poverty.
Spokane has a low unemployment rate.
In fact, the rate was only 4.6 percentage points higher than in 2014, according the U-M Poverty and Inequality Project.
A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute found that Spokane has the fourth-lowered unemployment rate of all metro areas, with unemployment rates ranging from 5.9 to 7.4 percentage points lower than in the national labor market.
In general, the local economy is one that thrives when the population is growing.
The economy of the area is diversified, with many industries supporting both large and small businesses.
According the Spokane Economic Development Authority, Spokane has one, third, and one-half of the largest and one of only three large metro economies with a population over one million people, according ToS.
The economic development agency estimates that one-quarter of Spokane residents live in the “bottom quintile” of income, meaning that they earn less than $30,