Houston (Mississippi)

Chickasaw County

28-33900

The city of Houston ( with the municipality status "City" ) is next to Okolona one of two administrative seats of Chickasaw County in the northern part of the U.S. state of Mississippi. In 2010, Houston had 3623 inhabitants.

The city is named after a native of Virginia governor of Tennessee and Texas, Sam Houston, named.

Geography

Houston is located at 33 ° 53'53 " north latitude and 89 ° 00'06 " west longitude and extending 19.7 km ². Not far from the city rises with the Yalobusha River one of the headwaters of the Yazoo River, a left tributary of the Mississippi.

Towns nearby are New Houlka Houston (18,8 km to the north), Van Vleet (17,6 km northeast), Trebloc ( 18.8 km east-southeast ), Woodland ( 14.7 km SSW ) and Vardaman (16,8 km west-southwest ).

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

Traffic

In Houston, the Mississippi Highway 8, 15 and 389 meet together. All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved driveways and local roads.

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

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Houston 3623 people in 1380 households. The population density was 184.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1380 households lived statistically 2.58 per person.

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. Regardless of ethnicity were 7.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

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