Cedar Park (Texas)

Williamson County

48-13552

Cedar Park is a city in Williamson County in the U.S. state of Texas in the United States.

Geography

The city lies on Cluck Creek and U.S. Highway 183, about 33 km north- west of Austin, in the southwest of the county, in the central southeast Texas and has a total area of 44.3 km ², of which 0.4 km ² water surface.

History

Initially welcomed the settlement and the Brushy Creek Running. 1871 George Cluck took the journey on the Chisholm Trail, accompanied by his wife Harriet, the first woman who undertook this difficult journey. 1873 bought Cluck this country, including Bushy Running Spring, built on the Cluck Ranch that it became clear to the center of the community. The first post office was established in February 1874 for Running Bushy, which Harriet Cluck operation for eight years.

1882 completed the Austin and Northwestern Railroad their distance from Austin to Burnet, where she crossed the land of the Clucks. In this context, the railroad company named the settlement order in Brueggerhoff, after the name of a partner of the company. 1887, the name was then renamed in Cedar Park. The mining of limestone for construction of buildings was in the following years until 1970, the most important economic factor, which was favored by the proximity to Austin. The proximity to Austin, a large part of the former farm land was from 1960 to land, the village grew in the years 1970 to 1980 from 125 to over 3000 residents in. 1990 206 businesses and 5161 inhabitants were reported. In 2000, these were already 20 049 inhabitants and 862 businesses.

Demographic data

According to the census of 2000, there were 26 049 people in 8,621 households and 7,155 families. The population density was 592.7 inhabitants per km ². The racial the population was composed of 86.41 % White, 3.32 % African American, 0.34 % Native American, 2.61 % Asian, 0.06 % Pacific Islander residents from the and 5.10% from other ethnic groups. Approximately 2.16% were Mixed Race and 13.50 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 8,621 households, 52.8 % had children under the age of 18 living with them. 70.3 % were married couples living together. 9.6% were single mothers and 17.0 % were non-families. 12.5 % of all households were single-person households and 2.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.29 persons to.

33.5 % of the population were under 18 years old, 6.0 % from 18 to 24, 40.3% 25-44, 15.9% from 45 to 64, and 4.3% who were 65 years or older. The average age was 31 years. For every 100 females of all ages were 97.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, 94.7 males.

The median income for a household was $ 67,527, and the median income for a family $ 70,587. Males have a median income of $ 49,657 versus $ 32,039 for females. The per capita income was $ 24,767. 4.1% of the population and 3.0 % of families are below the poverty line. Of which 6.2 % have children under the age of 18 and 0.0% of those 65 or older.

Sports

Since the 2009/10 season home to Cedar Park, Texas Stars Hockey Team, which plays in the American Hockey League. Their home games wearing the Texas Stars in the 6863 -seat Cedar Park Center.