Saraland, Alabama

Mobile County

01-68160

Saraland is an American city in Alabama. Located in Mobile County, it is the third largest city of the county, and a suburb of Mobile. According to estimates by the United States Census Bureau, the city had about 12,600 inhabitants in 2004. Royal Dutch Shell operates a petroleum refinery in Saraland.

Geography

Sara Lands geographical coordinates are 30 ° 50 'N, 88 ° 6' W30.825277777778 - 88.091944444444 ( 30.825186, -88.091932 ).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​57.0 km ², of which 56.7 km ² of land and 0.3 km ² omitted ( = 0.50 %) to water.

History

The current urban area Sara country was part of a fief to Don Diego Alvarez, which is why the descendants of settlement gave the first name Alvarez station. Later the city's name in Cleveland station was renamed after one of the settled families. The current name of the city was allegedly by CJ DeWitt added, who had moved for health reasons in 1890 from the north of here in 1895 opened the first post office at the Southern Railroad. Accordingly, the place is named after DeWitt's wife Sara.

Saraland was populated only weakly to the extent Mobiles north in the 1940s and 1950s; by the growth and population growth in Saraland was accelerated and 1957 was Incorporierung Sara Lands as City with 125 inhabitants at the time. In the United States Census 1960, the population had grown to 4595, in 1980 the city had 9844 inhabitants. In 2000, the population Sara Lands had risen to 12,288.

The worst train accident in the history of Amtrak took place on 22 September 1993 near the Big Bayou Canot Sara Lands. 2:53 local time counter clock was Amtrak's Sunset Limited, each of three locomotives driven on the route from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida with 220 people on board while crossing the Bayou Canot Bridge derailed. 47 people were killed, many of them were drowned, some burned in the rubble.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, there were 12,288 people Saraland. The population density was 216.5 people per km ². There were 5138 housing units at an average 90.5 per km ². The population Sara Lands consisted of 88.50 % White, 8.97 % African American, 0.56% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 0.01 % Pacific Islander, 0.37 % reported other races to belong and 1.13 % from two or more races. 1.17 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Residents Sara Lands distributed to 4810 households out of which 31.8% were living in children under 18 years. 61.0% married couples living together, 10.5 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.1% were non-families. 21.2 % of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 8.1% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size is 2.97.

The city population was spread out with 23.4 % under the, 9.4 % 18 -24- year-old, 29.3 % 25 -44- year-old, 24.4% 45-64 year olds and 13.5 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 95.4 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 92.2 males.

The median household income in Saraland was 38 318 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the height of 43,471 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 35,431 U.S. dollars, compared to 22 787 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income in Saraland was 19,470 U.S. dollars. 9.0 % of the population and 7.4 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 12.2 % of minors and 8.9 % of those age 65 or over.

Education

Saraland is from the public school system of the Mobile County dependent, but chose in June 2006 for an independent from the county school system. This is under construction and should be completed by 2009, according to the plans. At the beginning of the school year 2008/2009 will be the Saraland Elementary and Nelson Adams Middle School take over and open up in a new high school on which construction is estimated at $ 19 million U.S. dollars. Currently, students attend Satsuma High School in Satsuma or the Vigor High School in Prichard.

In Saraland, there are several private schools under church auspices.