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Waco, TX
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Waco profile


Living in Waco



Waco is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 143,984 people and 37 constituent neighborhoods, Waco is the 25th largest community in Texas.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Waco really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Waco is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Waco more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Waco’s character and quality of life.

Not only is Waco a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

The overall education level of Waco is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.81% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Waco in 2018 was $24,451, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,804 for a family of four. However, Waco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Waco is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Waco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waco residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Waco also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.02% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Waco include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

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