Fort Worth is a very large city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 978,468 people and 201 associated neighborhoods, Fort Worth is the fifth largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Fort Worth, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Fort Worth, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Fort Worth’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Fort Worth does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $76,602.00.Fort Worth is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Worth is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Worth who work in office and administrative support (11.15%), management occupations (10.64%), and sales jobs (9.48%). Also of interest is that Fort Worth has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.92% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The education level of Fort Worth citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.67% of adults in Fort Worth have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Fort Worth in 2022 was $37,157, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $148,628 for a family of four. However, Fort Worth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Worth is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Worth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Worth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Worth also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.63% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Worth include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish. In addition, Fort Worth has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.03%). The most common language spoken in Fort Worth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
