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Upper Arlington is an affluent residential city in Franklin County, just northwest of Columbus, with a population of 36,800 at the 2020 census, up from 33,771 in 2010.

Upper Arlington was developed by brothers King and Ben Thompson, who bought 840 acres of farmland from James T. Miller in 1913 to build a planned community inspired by Kansas City's Country Club District and the garden city movement.

The community took the name Upper Arlington by 1917 because it sat immediately north of an area then called Arlington (today's Marble Cliff), and it was incorporated as a village in 1918.

Upper Arlington became a city in 1941 and adopted its council-manager charter form of government in 1956.

Upper Arlington has about 14,330 households, about 79.4% of its homes are owner-occupied, and the median value of an owner-occupied home is about $595,600.

Upper Arlington's median household income is about $155,167, and roughly 79.8% of its adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, among the highest rates in Ohio.

The city's original 840-acre core, known as Old Arlington, is preserved as the Upper Arlington Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Scioto Country Club opened at Upper Arlington's southwestern edge in 1916 and became one of America's finest golf courses.

Golf legend Jack Nicklaus grew up in Upper Arlington, attended Upper Arlington High School, and took his first golf lessons at Scioto Country Club from instructor Jack Grout, the only teacher he ever had.

Upper Arlington has also been home to Ohio State football coaches Woody Hayes, John Cooper, and Jim Tressel, and to Ohio governor James Rhodes and U.S. senator John Bricker.