Arlington, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Arlington city is a mid-size city in Texas, with 394,769 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #7 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 33.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Arlington city earn a median of $73,519 a year, 6.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Arlington city is valued at $276,400, 8.9% below the national figure and 54% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,389 a month, 1.2% below the national figure, or roughly $16,668 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 54.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.