Grand Prairie is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 127,049 people and 21 constituent neighborhoods, Grand Prairie is the 17th largest community in Texas.

Grand Prairie is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Grand Prairie is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Prairie who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.04%), sales jobs (11.00%), and management occupations (8.70%).

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

"If you live in Grand Prairie, you are going to have to drive to get to work," say area residents. At least that is what most Grand Prairie residents do (97.6%). Grand Prairie is primarily built for cars, and driving around town will bare this out. Shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets are what you'll find. Sidewalks? Sure. But not everywhere, and walking to most places can be downright scary.

Grand Prairie Information and Demographics

The citizens of Grand Prairie are slightly better educated than the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns, with 19.34% of adults in Grand Prairie having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grand Prairie in 2000 was $18,978, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,912 for a family of four.

Grand Prairie is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grand Prairie home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Grand Prairie is White, followed by African-American. Grand Prairie also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.10% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Grand Prairie include German, Irish, and English.

Grand Prairie also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.40%.

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