Glendale is a relatively large city located in the state of California. With a population of 195,047 people and 28 constituent neighborhoods, Glendale is the 15th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Glendale is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glendale is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glendale who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.45%), sales jobs (12.90%), and management occupations (10.71%).

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

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

One thing noticeable about Glendale, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Glendale is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Glendale a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Glendale is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Glendale Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Glendale citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.05% of adults in Glendale have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Glendale in 2000 was $22,227, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,908 for a family of four.

Glendale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Glendale home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Glendale is White, followed by Asian. Glendale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.58% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Glendale include Armenian, English, German, Irish, Iranian, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Glendale's cultural character, accounting for 54.41% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Glendale 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 Glendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Armenian, Spanish, Korean, and Tagalog.