Arcadia, CA real estate and demographic information

About Arcadia

Arcadia is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 56,769 people and 14 constituent neighborhoods, Arcadia is the 152nd largest community in California.

Arcadia home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Arcadia real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Arcadia is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 91.97% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Arcadia is a city of professionals, sales and office workers and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arcadia who work in sales jobs (15.78%), management occupations (14.05%) and office and administrative support (13.77%).

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

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

One thing that you will notice about Arcadia is that there is a good-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. Many singles consider Arcadia a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.

Because of many things, Arcadia 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, Arcadia really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Arcadia 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.

Arcadia Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Arcadia is a pretty powerful place. 53.33% of the adults in Arcadia have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Arcadia in 2010 was $38,518, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $154,072 for a family of four. However, Arcadia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Arcadia is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Arcadia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arcadia residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Arcadia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.06% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Arcadia include English, German and Italian.

Arcadia also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 49.04%.

The languages spoken by people in Arcadia are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Arcadia is Chinese. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish and Korean.