Due to the primarily Adventist population, most downtown College Place businesses close on Friday evening, reopening in most cases on Saturday night, or Sunday morning.

Martin Field, to the west of town, was an air training base during World War II.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.66 square miles (6.89 km2), all of it land.

[5] At the 2010 census there were 8,765 people in 3,523 households, including 2,096 families, in the city.

There were 3,764 housing units at an average density of 1,415.0 per square mile (546.3/km2).

At the 2000 census, there were 7,818 people in 2,909 households, including 1,870 families, in the city.

Most of College Place is in the College Place School District; a small portion of the city's east side is served by Walla Walla Public Schools.