Largo (Florida)

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Pinellas County Florida Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Largo Highlighted.svg
County and state location
Basic data
Foundation : June 6, 1905
State : United States
State : Florida
County : Pinellas County
Coordinates : 27 ° 55 ′  N , 82 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 27 ° 55 ′  N , 82 ° 47 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 77,648 (as of 2010)
2,700,000
Population density : 1,702.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 48.1 km 2  (approx. 19 mi 2 ) of
which 45.6 km 2  (approx. 18 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 3 m
Postcodes : 33770-33779
Area code : +1 727
FIPS : 12-39425
GNIS ID : 0285346
Website : www.largo.com
Mayor : Woody Brown

Largo is a city in Pinellas County in the US state of Florida with 77,648 inhabitants (as of 2010).

geography

Largo is located on the west coast of Florida between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico . The city is bordered by the towns of Belleair , Belleair Bluffs , Indian Rocks Beach , Clearwater, and Pinellas Park . Largo is about 20 km west of Tampa .

history

The Orange Belt Railway, completed in 1888, once ran through Largo from Sanford to Saint Petersburg . After several takeovers, the line was shut down when the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was founded in 1967.

Largo itself was mentioned from 1905. In 1913, it was the first municipality in Pinellas County to have its own city council as a local political body. The most important source of income was agriculture until the 1960s, before urban workers from surrounding regions increasingly used the city as a permanent place of residence, which is why it was often referred to as the “dormitory city”. From 1905 to 2005 the area of ​​the city grew to around 44 square kilometers and the population from around 300 to more than 70,000 inhabitants. Largo maintains a twinning with the Japanese city of Kōchi (also called Kami ), an amalgamation of the former communities of Kahoku and Tosayamada in the eponymous prefecture of Kōchi in Japan .

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census, the then 77,648 inhabitants were distributed over 46,859 households. The population density was 1702.8 inh / km². 86.3% of the population identified themselves as whites , 5.6% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 2.7% as Asian Americans . 2.8% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 2.4% to several ethnic groups. 9.0% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

In 2010 children under the age of 18 lived in 19.0% of all households and people aged 65 or over lived in 37.9% of all households. 51.5% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring). The average household size was 2.02 people and the average family size was 2.67 people.

17.5% of the population were younger than 20 years, 21.9% were 20 to 39 years old, 27.4% were 40 to 59 years old, and 33.1% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 48 years. 47.2% of the population were male and 52.8% were female.

The median annual income was $ 40,493, with 12.9% of the population living below the poverty line.

In 2000, English was the first language of 90.62% of the population, 4.01% spoke Spanish and 5.37% had another mother tongue.

Attractions

On December 3, 1987, the Louis Johnson Building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places .

More Attractions:

  • Florida Botanical Gardens
  • Gulf Coast Museum of Art

traffic

Largo is crossed by US Highway 19 and Florida State Roads 128 , 595 , 651 , 686 , 688, and 693 . St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is located on the eastern edge of the city .

crime

The crime rate was 421 points in 2010 (US average: 266 points) in the average range. There were three murders, 39 rapes, 131 robberies, 333 bodily harm, 527 break-ins, 2,668 thefts, 152 car thefts and 14 arson attacks.

Web links

Commons : Largo, Florida  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2
  2. ^ Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Language distribution 2000 . Modern Language Association . Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ FLORIDA - Pinellas County. National Register of Historic Places , accessed August 10, 2015 .
  5. ↑ http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Largo-Florida.html