Mc Lean is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 18,554 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Mc Lean is the 53rd largest community in Virginia.

Mc Lean is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 97.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Mc Lean is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mc Lean who work in management occupations (22.61%), business and financial occupations (13.02%), and computer science and math (12.74%).

Of important note, Mc Lean is also a town of artists. Mc Lean has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Mc Lean's character.

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

Mc Lean, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the town.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Mc Lean is also home to many people who can 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.

Mc Lean is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Mc Lean Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Mc Lean is a pretty powerful place. 72.64% of the adults in Mc Lean have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Mc Lean in 2000 was $59,535, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $238,140 for a family of four. However, Mc Lean contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mc Lean is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mc Lean home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mc Lean is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mc Lean include English, Irish, German, Italian, Iranian, Polish, and Russian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Mc Lean's cultural character, accounting for 29.13% of the town's population.

The languages spoken by people in Mc Lean are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Mc Lean is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Chinese, and Other Asian languages.