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Present day Yelm is a bedroom community for residents working in the surrounding cities of Tacoma, Olympia, and Centralia. Yelm, also, hosts a large number of military families, who are currently, or were formerly, stationed at nearby Fort Lewis, and McChord Air Force Base.
The Yelm post office, and school district (zip code 98597), serve the surrounding unincorporated Thurston County residential communities in the Bald Hills of Lake Lawrence, and Clearwood.
Yelm is home of the first Class A Water Reclamation Facility, and distribution system, in Washington state. This system reclaims all of its waste water which is used in local irrigation, and added to recharge streams, and a wetland park, that includes a catch-and-release pond for rainbow trout.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,289 people, 1,216 households, and 807 families residing in the city. The population density was 584.4 people, per square mile (225.6/km²). There were 1,323 housing units, at an average density of 235.1/sq mi (90.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.17% White, 1.79% African American, 2.22% Native American, 1.73% Asian, 1.16% Pacific Islander, 1.58% from other races, and 5.35% from two, or more, races. Hispanic, or Latino, of any race were 5.35% of the population.
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