Leander is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 7,352 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Leander is the 264th largest community in Texas.

Leander is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Leander is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leander who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.40%), sales jobs (11.33%), and management occupations (10.88%).

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

One downside of living in Leander, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.57 minutes every day commuting to work.

Leander is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Leander isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.87% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Leander Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Leander who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 22.44% of adults in Leander have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Leander in 2000 was $20,263, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,052 for a family of four. However, Leander contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Leander is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leander home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Leander is White, followed by African-American. Leander also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.14% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Leander include German, English, Irish, French, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

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