Dublin (Texas)

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Dublin
Erath County Dublin.svg
Location in Texas
Basic data
State : United States
State : Texas
County : Erath County
Coordinates : 32 ° 5 ′  N , 98 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 32 ° 5 ′  N , 98 ° 21 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 3,754 (as of: 2000)
Population density : 426.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 8.8 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 )
Height : 446 m
Postal code : 76446
Area code : +1 254
FIPS : 48-21484
GNIS ID : 1334711

Dublin is a city in Erath County in the US state of Texas . In the city's oldest bottler of is Dr Pepper .

geography

The city is located on US Highway 67 in the southwest of the county, just northeast of the geographic center of Texas.

history

The place was founded in 1854 by AH Dobkins and probably named after his hometown in Ireland.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1890 2025 -
1900 2370 17%
1910 2551 7.6%
1920 3229 26.6%
1930 2271 -29.7%
1940 2546 12.1%
1950 2761 8.4%
1960 2443 -11.5%
1970 2810 15%
1980 2723 -3.1%
1990 3190 17.2%
2000 3754 17.7%
1890-2000,

According to the 2000 census, 3,754 people in 1,309 households and 920 families lived here. The population density was 425.1 inhabitants per km ². The racial the population was composed of 80.42% White, 0.24% African American, 0.91% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, and 16.25% others ethnic groups. About 2.05% were of mixed race and 29.62% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 1,309 households, 39.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 53.4% ​​of these were married couples living together. 11.7% were single mothers and 29.7% were non-families. 26.2% of all households were single households and there were people living in 14.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.38 people.

32.4% of the population were under 18 years old, 8.9% 18 to 24, 25.6% 25 to 44, 17.5% 45 to 64, and 15.5% who were 65 years of age or older . The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females of all age groups, there were 90.9 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 86.2 men.

The median income for a household in the 24,397 USD , and the median income for a family 27,880 USD. Males had a median income of $ 27,798 versus $ 16,786 for females. The per capita income was $ 11,724. 31.5% of the population and 28.1% of families are below the poverty line. Of these, 41.1% were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 10.3% were 65 or older.

sons and daughters of the town

  • Ben Hogan (1912-1997), golfer
  • Johnny Duncan (1938-2006), country singer and a cousin of the musician Dan Seals

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012

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