College Station is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 124,319 people and 33 associated neighborhoods, College Station is the 30th largest community in Texas.

College Station real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although College Station house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

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

A relatively large number of people in College Station telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.28% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

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

Not only is College Station a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because College Station is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes College Station a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

One of the benefits of College Station is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.50 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to College Station, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. College Station is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 58.34% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in College Station in 2022 was $31,381, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,524 for a family of four. However, College Station contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

College Station is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call College Station home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of College Station residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. College Station also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.87% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in College Station include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in College Station is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.