Arlington is a large city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 332,695 people and 56 constituent neighborhoods, Arlington is the seventh largest community in Texas.

Arlington is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Arlington is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arlington who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.81%), sales jobs (12.87%), and management occupations (9.87%).

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.

Arlington is one of the most attractive larger cities for people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. This makes it a good place to live for young singles in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting their professional careers. Although Arlington is a large city, this demographic is significant enough that young professionals will find many others like themselves here, with really good opportunities for friendships, recreation, romance, and more.

Arlington Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Arlington citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.41% of adults in Arlington have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Arlington in 2000 was $22,445, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,780 for a family of four.

Arlington is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Arlington home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Arlington is White, followed by 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 18.33% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Arlington include German, English, and Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Arlington's cultural character, accounting for 15.30% of the city's population.

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