Allen (Texas)

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Pebblecreek Montessori
Pebblecreek Montessori
Location in Texas
Location in Texas
Basic data
Foundation : 1953
State : United States
State : Texas
County : Collin County
Coordinates : 33 ° 6 ′  N , 96 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 33 ° 6 ′  N , 96 ° 40 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 84,246 (as of 2010)
Population density : 1,235.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 68.2 km 2  (approx. 26 mi 2 ) of
which 68.2 km 2  (approx. 26 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 201 m
Postcodes : 75002, 75013
Area code : +1 972, 469, 214
FIPS : 48-01924
GNIS ID : 1329377
Website : www.cityofallen.org
Mayor : Stephen Terrell

Allen is a city in Collin County in the US state of Texas in the United States of America and is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex .

geography

The city is located in northeast Texas on the north-south running US Highway 75, is about 60 kilometers to the north from Oklahoma and has a total area of ​​68.2 km², without any significant water surface. The distance to Dallas in the southwest is about 35 kilometers.

history

The Pebblecreek Montessori Preschool
growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1960 659 -
1970 1940 194.4%
1980 8314 328.6%
1990 19,315 132.3%
2000 43,554 125.5%
2010 87,246 100.3%
1850-2000, 2010

The city was founded in 1870 as a railroad stop for the Houston and Texas Railroad as a loading facility for the surrounding farms. The city was named after the Texas attorney general and promoter of the railway construction Ebenezer Allen . The first post office opened in 1876, and in 1878 a band of robbers led by Sam Bass carried out the first railroad heist in Texas history at the station.

Until 1945, the city remained a small village with around 500 inhabitants, and in 1948 the railroad was shut down. It was not until the mid-1960s that the city expanded noticeably and from 1970 to 1980 the population rose rapidly from 1940 to 8,314. The reason for this was the proximity to Dallas and Plano and the construction of the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport . In 1990 the city already had 18,309 inhabitants, and in the next ten years the population increased to 43,554. The estimate for the end of 2005 is around 70,000 inhabitants. At the 2010 census, 84,246 people lived in the city, twice as many as ten years earlier.

In 1967 the library was founded and run exclusively by volunteers, the costs were covered by donations. In 1971 it was subordinated to the city administration and today has 120,000 books, video and audio documents. In the 1990s, the city served as the backdrop for the outdoor recordings of the TV shows Barney & Friends and Wishbone .

Demographic data

According to the 2000 census, 43,554 people lived here in 14,205 households and 12,045 families. The population density was 638.4 inhabitants per km ². The racial the population is made up of 87.14% White, 4.40% African American, 0.52% Native American, 3.73% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, and 2.41% other ethnic groups. About 1.75% are descended from two or more races, and 6.98% of the population are Spanish or Latin American.

Of the 14,205 households, 55.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 74.6% of them were married couples living together. 7.4% were single mothers and 15.2% were non-families. 11.9% of all households were single households and 1.6% had people living there who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.07 and the average family size was 3.35 people.

34.9% of the population were under 18 years old, 5.4% 18 to 24, 40.7% 25 to 44, 16.2% 45 to 64, and 2.8% 65 years or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females of all age groups, there were 99.7 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 97.3 men.

The median income for a household in the 78,924 US dollars , and the median income for a family 82,747 dollars. Males had a median income of $ 60,754 versus $ 36,067 for women. The per capita income was $ 28,575. 3.0% of the population and 2.0% of families are below the poverty line. 3.2% of these were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 2.6% were 65 or older.

crime

The crime rate has an index of 203.0 points (US national average: 329.7 points).
In 2002 there were 0 murders, 8 rapes, 14 robberies, 49 physical attacks on people, 404 break-ins, 989 thefts and 42 car thefts.

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
  2. ↑ US Census ( Memento from January 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ US Census Bureau

Web links

Commons : Allen, Texas  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files