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Arlington, TX
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Arlington profile


Living in Arlington



Arlington is a large city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 394,602 people and 86 constituent neighborhoods, Arlington is the seventh largest community in Texas.

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.41% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One thing noticeable about Arlington, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Arlington 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 Arlington a great place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun. In fact, Arlington is one of the top larger cities in America for educated single professionals to flock.

In terms of college education, Arlington is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.73% of adults in Arlington have a college degree.

The per capita income in Arlington in 2018 was $30,659, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,636 for a family of four. However, Arlington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Arlington is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Arlington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arlington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Arlington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.94% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Arlington include German, English, Irish, African, and European.

Arlington also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 20.88%.

The most common language spoken in Arlington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.