Lake Dallas is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 7,917 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lake Dallas is the 295th largest community in Texas.Lake Dallas is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Dallas is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Dallas who work in office and administrative support (16.15%), management occupations (12.06%), and sales jobs (10.09%). Also of interest is that Lake Dallas has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.50% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. One downside of living in Lake Dallas, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.13 minutes every day commuting to work. As is often the case in a small city, Lake Dallas doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The education level of Lake Dallas citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.26% of adults in Lake Dallas have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Lake Dallas in 2022 was $37,694, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,776 for a family of four. However, Lake Dallas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lake Dallas is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Dallas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Dallas residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lake Dallas also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.64% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Dallas include German, Irish, English, Other Subsaharan African, and Italian. In addition, Lake Dallas has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (25.43%). The most common language spoken in Lake Dallas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
