Arvada is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 102,505 people and 23 constituent neighborhoods, Arvada is the sixth largest community in Colorado.

Arvada is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Arvada is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arvada who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.32%), sales jobs (12.93%), and management occupations (10.01%).

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

Arvada Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Arvada is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.02% of adults in Arvada have a college degree.

The per capita income in Arvada in 2000 was $24,679, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,716 for a family of four.

The people who call Arvada home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Arvada is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Arvada include German, English, Irish, Italian, Swedish, French, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Arvada is English. Some people also speak Spanish.