Alvarado (Texas)
| Alvarado | |||
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 The Alvarado Downtown Square |
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| Location in Texas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1885 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Johnson County | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 24 ′ N , 97 ° 13 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 4,087 (as of 2006) | ||
| Population density : | 404.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 10.1 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) of which 10.1 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 233 m | ||
| Postal code : | 76009 | ||
| Area code : | +1 817 | ||
| FIPS : | 48-02260 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1329475 | ||
Alvarado is a city in Johnson County in the US state of Texas in the United States of America and belongs to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex .
geography
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1890 | 1543 | - | |
| 1900 | 1342 | -13% | |
| 1910 | 1155 | -13.9% | |
| 1920 | 1284 | 11.2% | |
| 1930 | 1210 | -5.8% | |
| 1940 | 1324 | 9.4% | |
| 1950 | 1656 | 25.1% | |
| 1960 | 1907 | 15.2% | |
| 1970 | 2129 | 11.6% | |
| 1980 | 2701 | 26.9% | |
| 1990 | 2918 | 8th % | |
| 2000 | 3288 | 12.7% | |
| 1180-2000 | |||
The city is located in northeast Texas on US Highway 35 , which runs north-south , is about 120 kilometers to the north from the state border with Oklahoma and has a total area of 10.1 km², of which 0.1 km² is water. The distance to Dallas in the northeast is about 65 kilometers.
history
Alvarado is the oldest town in Johnson County. In the winter of 1849 William Balch first settled in this area. In 1851 he and a settler friend, GH Sigler , marked out a small area for the new settlement. The first sheriff of the settlement was AH Onstoot , who fought in the Mexican-American War in Alvarado , Veracruz , Mexico , and the settlement was named Alvarado in memory of that war. In the summer of 1854 100 families were already living in the village and a post office was opened.
In 1881 the rails of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad reached the place and the population rose to 1000 in a few years. In 1880 there were several shops, a bank, a local newspaper, the Alvarado Bulletin , two schools, a hotel, an opera house and a few small factories. A second bank opened in 1890 and the population doubled to 2000. Over the next few decades the population rose only slowly and in 1988 there were 4129 inhabitants. Due to emigration to the industrial cities of Cleburne and Dallas, the population fell back to 3,288 in 2000.
Demographic data
According to the 2000 census, 3288 people in 1151 households and 834 families lived here. The population density was 325.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population is composed of 81.30% White, 7.15% African American, 0.61% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, and 9.25% other ethnic groups. About 1.28% are of two or more races and 18.46% of the population are Hispanic .
Of the 1,151 households, 37.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 51.8% of these were married couples living together. 13.6% were single mothers and 27.5% were non-families. 23.5% of all households were single households and there were people living in 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.26.
29.6% of the population were under 18 years old, 9.0% 18 to 24, 28.5% 25 to 44, 20.2% 45 to 64, and 12.7% were 65 years or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females of all age groups there were 99.8 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 93.2 men.
The median income for a household in the 31,166 US dollars , and the median income for a family 36,471 dollars. Men had a median income of $ 30,690 versus women of $ 22,181. The per capita income was $ 14,476. 14.1% of the population and 11.7% of families are below the poverty line. Of these, 15.5% were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 17.4% were 65 or older.
crime
The crime rate has an index of 467.8 points (US national average: 329.7 points).
In 2002 there were 0 murders, 3 rapes, 1 robbery, 18 physical attacks on people, 68 break-ins, 104 thefts and 17 car thefts.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012