The city centre is located approximately 86 miles (138 km) east of Guadalajara, the state capital.

Arandas is commonly known among Mexicans as the commercial and manufacturing centre for agricultural products (typically beans and wheat) and its pastoral environment, which allows the city to produce various commercial products such as linseed oil, tequila, pottery, woollen blankets, and straw hats.

To show the origin of this community more extensively, the past was excavated and information was linked together until reaching its institutional origin that dates to July 2, 1544, the year that both New Spain's viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza, as the governor of Nueva Galicia Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, they gave in a series of land bonds to Spanish captain Juan de Villaseñor y Orozco, which by its vast land area became a large estate (40.000 square km) achieved due to his enormous labour both, in the early days of the conquest, as well as a reward for his great strategies during the Mixton war.

On August 23, 1969, Arandas became recognized as a city by then governor of Jalisco, Francisco Medina Ascencio.

[4] Arandas is located within the Mare Acidalium Quadrangle to the Northeast of Chryse Planitia in the Northern Plains of Mars and is one of the classic examples of a double-layered ejecta crater.

The city has seen a sharp demographic rise in recent years to its growing agricultural sector and economic opportunities.

The number of speakers of indigenous languages has declined since the colonial era through genocide, cultural assimilation and policies enacted by the Spanish Empire and New Spain.

However, some indigenous languages continue to be spoken within Arandas and the Greater Los Altos region.

These speakers descend from the Tzeltal, Nahuas, Zapotec, Purépecha and Tarasco people that have inhabited the Jalisco province since the Pre-Columbian era.

Arandas specifically, is a rising residence for immigrants due to its proximity to Guadalajara, the state capital and the seventh-largest city in Mexico.

Indices closer to 0, represent more equity among its inhabitants, while values close to 1, express maximum inequity among its population.

On the other hand, the municipalities with less social equality by this metric were: Mezquitic (0.640), Bolaños (0.532), Villa Guerrero (0.468), Quitupan (0.458), and Huejuquilla el Alto (0.457).

Arandas has had unprecedented macroeconomic stability, with one of the highest per capita incomes of Jalisco municipalities, especially with the Los Altos Region.

The products with the highest level of international purchases in 2020 were Machinery and Apparatus for Soldering, Brazing, Welding, Gas-Operated Surface Tempering Machines and Appliances (US$694k), Machinery and Mechanical Appliances Having Individual Functions, not Specified Elsewhere (US$472k), and Labels of all Kinds, Paper or Paperboard, whether or not Printed (US$302k).

In the period January to June 2021, FDI in Jalisco reached US$875M, distributed in reinvestment of earnings (US$542M), inter-company debts (US$202M), and equity capital (US$131M).

From January 1999 and June 2021, Jalisco accumulates a total of US$625B in FDI, distributed in equity capital (US$15.4B), reinvestment of earnings (US$10.3B), and inter-company debts (US$8.85B).

These figures have greatly reduced since 2000, due to economic growth, government spending by the Jalisco state governments of Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez, Emilio González Márquez, Aristóteles Sandoval and Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.

There exists a large discrepancy between male and female labour rates in Arandas and Jalisco, which is characteristic for Mexican states and cities.

The occupations with the most workers during the second quarter of 2021 were Sales Employees, Dispatchers and Dependent on Trade, Traders in Stores, and Bricklayers, Stonemasons and Related.

[14] 92% of Arandas residents have cellular devices like portable phones, a figure which ranks the city on the higher hand of Mexican municipalities, and only 0.6 percentage points below the world average.

Widely renowned for using traditional production methods such as roasting agave in brick ovens, without the use of flavour additives, diffusers, or autoclaves employed by lesser quality brands.

Organically grown agave for tequila is produced in the village of Agua Negra, about 16 miles from Arandas.