Nearly half the states in the country have a town, village, city, or census-designated place called Arlington—ranked here by population. How does ours stack up?
Arlington, Wyoming
Population: 25
Arlington, Illinois
Population: 193
Arlington, Arizona
Population: 194
Arlington, Kentucky
Population: 324
Arlington, Iowa
Population: 429
Home of Chris Soules of“The Bachelor,” dubbed “the least geographically desirable bachelor ever” by Slate.
Arlington, Indiana
Population: 433
Arlington, Kansas
Population: 473
Arlington, Oregon
Population: 586
Arlington, Wisconsin
Population: 819
Arlington, South Dakota
Population: 915
Birthplace of Nobel Prize-winning economist Theodore Schultz.
Arlington, Nebraska
Population: 1,243
Arlington, Ohio
Population: 1,455
Arlington, Georgia
Population: 1,479
Arlington, Minnesota
Population: 2,233
Arlington, Vermont
Population: 2,317
Arlington, New York
Population: 4,061
Arlington, Tennessee
Population: 11,517
Called Haysville until 1883, when it was renamed after Arlington National Cemetery.
Arlington, Washington
Population: 17,926
Arlington, Massachusetts
Population: 42,844
Paul Revere passed through on his midnight ride to warn that the British were coming.
Arlington, Virginia
Population: 207,627
Arlington, Texas
Population: 365,438
The only one bigger than Virginia’s, it’s home to the Texas Rangers.
This article appears in our January 2016 issue of Washingtonian.
