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, shaping the character of the city into a place that is geared toward, and considered attractive to, many single, educated people. Many singles consider Tempe a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.
The citizens of Tempe are among the most well-educated in the nation: 48.87% of adults in Tempe have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Tempe in 2022 was $40,495, which is wealthy relative to Arizona, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,980 for a family of four. However, Tempe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tempe is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tempe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tempe residents report their race to be 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 23.48% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tempe include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Tempe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
