Glendale is a relatively large city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 249,630 people and 55 constituent neighborhoods, Glendale is the sixth largest community in Arizona.
Unlike some cities, Glendale isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Glendale are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glendale is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Glendale who work in office and administrative support (13.70%), sales jobs (10.35%), and management occupations (8.41%).
Also of interest is that Glendale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The population of Glendale overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Glendale, 21.86% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Glendale in 2018 was $26,395, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,580 for a family of four. However, Glendale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Glendale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Glendale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glendale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Glendale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Glendale include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
Glendale also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.52%.
The most common language spoken in Glendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.