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Arlington, TX
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Arlington profile


Living in Arlington



Arlington is a large city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 394,602 people and 86 associated neighborhoods, Arlington is the seventh largest community in Texas.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.79% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Arlington is one of the most attractive larger cities for people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. This makes it a good place to live for young singles in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting their professional careers. Although Arlington is a large city, this demographic is significant enough that young professionals will find many others like themselves here, with really good opportunities for friendships, recreation, romance, and more.

In terms of college education, Arlington is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.41% of adults in Arlington have a college degree.

The per capita income in Arlington in 2018 was $33,477, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,908 for a family of four. However, Arlington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Arlington is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Arlington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arlington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Arlington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.96% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Arlington include German, English, Irish, African, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Arlington's cultural character, accounting for 20.84% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Arlington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.