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." While both of these categories describe educated professionals, urban sophisticates are quite a different demographic. Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

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

Mc Lean Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Mc Lean. 72.64% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

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.

Mc Lean also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 29.13%.

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.