Houston, Mississippi

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Houston
Houston, Mississippi .jpg
Location in Mississippi
Chickasaw County Mississippi Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Houston Highlighted.svg
Basic data
State : United States
State : Mississippi
County : Chickasaw County
Coordinates : 33 ° 54 ′  N , 89 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 33 ° 54 ′  N , 89 ° 0 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 3,623 (as of 2010)
Population density : 184.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 19.7 km 2  (approx. 8 mi 2 ) of
which 19.6 km 2  (approx. 8 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 108 m
Postal code : 38851
Area code : +1 662
FIPS : 28-33900
GNIS ID : 0693543

The city of Houston (with the municipal status " City ") is next to Okolona one of two administrative centers of Chickasaw County in the north of the US state Mississippi . In 2010 , Houston had 3,623 residents.

The city is named after the Virginia- born Governor of Tennessee and Texas , Sam Houston .

geography

Houston is located at 33 ° 53'53 "north latitude and 89 ° 00'06" west longitude and extends over 19.7 km². Not far from the city, the Yalobusha River is one of the two headwaters of the Yazoo River , a left tributary of the Mississippi .

Neighboring towns to Houston are New Houlka (11.8 miles north), Van Vleet ( 11.7 miles northeast), Trebloc (11.8 miles east-southeast), Woodland (14.7 km southwest), and Vardaman (16.8 miles west-southwest ).

The closest major cities are Memphis , Tennessee (200 km northwest), Birmingham , Alabama (251 km east) and Mississippi's capital Jackson (235 km southwest).

traffic

Mississippi Highways 8 , 15 and 389 meet in Houston . All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roads as well as inner-city roads.

The Houston Municipal Airport is a small regional airport in the southwest of Houston . The nearest major airports are Memphis International Airport (185 km northwest) and Jackson-Evers International Airport (240 km southwest).

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Houston had 3,623 people in 1,380 households. The population density was 184.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.58 people lived in each of the 1380 households.

The racial the population was composed of 51.0 percent white, 41.4 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 5.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 7.2 percent of the population.

29.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.8 percent were 65 years or older. 55.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 25,560  USD . The per capita income was $ 14,844. 29.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Association of Counties.Retrieved April 19, 2013
  2. ^ A b American Fact Finder. Retrieved April 19, 2013
  3. ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed April 19, 2013

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