Banks Springs
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Location in Louisiana
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Louisiana | ||
| Parish : | Caldwell Parish | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 5 ′ N , 92 ° 6 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,192 (as of 2010) | ||
| Height : | 62 m | ||
| Postal code : | 71418 | ||
| Area code : | +1 318 | ||
| FIPS : | 22-04230 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 542948 | ||
Banks Springs is a settlement on community-free area in Caldwell Parish in US -amerikanischen State Louisiana . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 , Banks Springs had 1,192 residents.
geography
Banks Springs is located in north-central Louisiana, not far from the west bank of the Ouachita River . The geographical coordinates of Banks Springs are 32 ° 04'56 "north latitude and 92 ° 05'34" west longitude. Banks Springs covers an area of 2.1 km².
Neighboring places of Banks Springs are Columbia (on the northeastern boundary) and Grayson (on the southwestern boundary).
The closest major cities are Mississippi's capital Jackson (224 km northeast), Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (264 km south-southeast), Louisiana's largest city New Orleans (392 km in the same direction), Lafayette (150 miles south), Shreveport (197 km west-northwest ) and Arkansas' capital, Little Rock (336 km north).
traffic
The US Highway 165 as well as the here from the west opens out and then congruent extending Louisiana Highway 4 run from southwest to northeast as the main road through the town. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs parallel to the US 165 for freight traffic .
With the Caldwell Parish Airport there is a small airfield 6.8 km northeast. The nearest major airports are Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (378 km south-southeast) and Jackson-Evers International Airport (239 km east).
population
According to the 2010 census , Banks Springs had 1,192 people in 483 households that statistically had 2.31 people each.
The racial the population was composed of 44.0 percent white, 52.9 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.3 percent of the population, regardless of ethnicity.
28.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 51.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.0 percent were 65 years or older. 58.4 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 16,129 USD . The per capita income was $ 15,841. 45.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved December 3, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed December 3, 2013