Wylie is a medium-sized town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 20,775 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Wylie is the 119th largest community in Texas.

Wylie is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wylie is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wylie who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.26%), sales jobs (12.15%), and management occupations (11.29%).

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

In Wylie, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Residents of Wylie by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 97.7% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Wylie may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

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

Wylie Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Wylie is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 14.96%: 21.76% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Wylie in 2000 was $23,696, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,784 for a family of four. However, Wylie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wylie home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Wylie is White, followed by African-American. Wylie also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.41% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Wylie include German, Irish, and English.

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