Colleyville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 19,606 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Colleyville is the 125th largest community in Texas.

Colleyville is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.05% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Colleyville is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Colleyville who work in management occupations (25.43%), sales jobs (15.30%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.42%).

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

In addition, Colleyville is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Colleyville 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, Colleyville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Colleyville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

For most residents of Colleyville, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 98.1% of people in Colleyville drive alone to work on most days, making Colleyville a very car-oriented town. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Colleyville's landscape.

Being a small town, Colleyville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Colleyville Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Colleyville, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Colleyville is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 56.23% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Colleyville in 2000 was $50,159, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $200,636 for a family of four. However, Colleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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