Cedar Park is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 25,776 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Cedar Park is the 101st largest community in Texas.

Much of the housing in Cedar Park has been built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Cedar Park economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Cedar Park, where the median household income is $67,527.

Cedar Park is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Park is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Park who work in sales jobs (14.92%), management occupations (13.76%), and office and administrative support jobs (13.65%).

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

Because of many things, Cedar Park is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Cedar Park a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Cedar Park has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Cedar Park's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

For most residents of Cedar Park, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 98.5% of people in Cedar Park drive alone to work on most days, making Cedar Park a very car-oriented city. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Cedar Park's landscape.

As is often the case in a small city, Cedar Park doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Cedar Park Information and Demographics

The citizens of Cedar Park are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.64% of adults in Cedar Park have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cedar Park in 2000 was $24,767, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,068 for a family of four. However, Cedar Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cedar Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cedar Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cedar Park is White, followed by African-American. Cedar Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.27% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Park include German, English, Irish, Italian, French, and Scottish.

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