Tempe is a relatively large city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 158,426 people and 31 constituent neighborhoods, Tempe is the seventh largest community in Arizona.

Tempe is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tempe is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tempe who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.15%), sales jobs (12.23%), and management occupations (9.42%).

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

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Tempe really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Tempe 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 Tempe more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Tempe's character and quality of life.

Not only is Tempe 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.

Tempe Information and Demographics

The population of Tempe is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.63% of adults in Tempe have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tempe in 2000 was $22,406, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,624 for a family of four.

Tempe is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tempe home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Tempe is White, followed by Asian. Tempe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.86% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Tempe include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Tempe is English. Some people also speak Spanish.