Palm Harbor

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Palm Harbor
Pinellas County Florida Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Palm Harbor Highlighted.svg
County and state location
Basic data
State : United States
State : Florida
County : Pinellas County
Coordinates : 28 ° 5 ′  N , 82 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 28 ° 5 ′  N , 82 ° 45 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 57,439 (as of 2010)
Population density : 1,276.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 68.9 km 2  (approx. 27 mi 2 ) of
which 45.0 km 2  (approx. 17 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 15 m
Postcodes : 34682-34685
Area code : +1 727
FIPS : 12-54350
GNIS ID : 0288399

Palm Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinellas County in the US state of Florida with 57,439 residents (as of 2010).

geography

Palm Harbor borders directly on the cities of Tarpon Springs , Oldsmar , Clearwater and Dunedin, and to the west on the Gulf of Mexico . The CDP is located about 20 km west of Tampa and is tangent or traversed by US Highway 19 and Florida State Roads 586 and 595 .

history

Palm Harbor was founded in 1888 under the name Sutherland . The Orange Belt Railway from Sanford to Saint Petersburg, which was completed in the year the town was founded, once ran through Sutherland and Palm Harbor . In 1925 the place was renamed Palm Harbor. After several takeovers, the line was shut down when the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was founded in 1967.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census, the 57,439 inhabitants at that time were distributed over 30,292 households. The population density was 1276.4 inh / km². 93.5% of the population identified themselves as whites , 2.0% as African American , 0.2% as Indians and 1.6% as Asian Americans . 0.8% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.8% to several ethnic groups. 5.9% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

In 2010 children under the age of 18 and 36.2% of all households lived in 23.2% of all households with persons at least 65 years of age. 61.5% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or a parent with offspring). The average household size was 2.17 people and the average family size was 2.74 people.

19.4% of the population were younger than 20 years, 18.0% were 20 to 39 years old, 32.0% were 40 to 59 years old, and 30.5% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 49 years. 47.5% of the population were male and 52.5% were female.

The median annual income was $ 54,233, with 8.2% of the population living below the poverty line.

In 2000, English was the mother tongue of 90.21% of the population, 3.44% spoke Spanish and 6.35% had another mother tongue.

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 , accessed September 18, 2015 .
  3. ^ Language distribution 2000. Modern Language Association , accessed September 18, 2015 .