Clinton (Tennessee)

Anderson County

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Clinton is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Anderson County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. In 2010, Clinton had 9841 inhabitants.

Clinton is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area, the metropolitan area around the city of Knoxville.

Geography

Clinton is located in eastern Tennessee in the Southwestern Appalachians. The city is located on both sides of Clinch River, which belongs on the Tennessee River and the Ohio to the basin of the Mississippi.

The geographical coordinates of 36 ° 06'12 Clinton " north latitude and 84 ° 07'55 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 31.1 km ², spread to 29.6 km ² land and 1.5 km ² water surface.

Towns nearby are from Clinton Lake City (14,4 km to the north), Norris (13 km northeast), Powell (17,5 km to the southeast ) and Oak Ridge (18,8 km southwest).

The city center is located 30 km southeast of Knoxville. The nearest other cities are Lexington in Kentucky (253 km north), Charlotte, North Carolina ( 395 km east-southeast ), Atlanta, Georgia ( 346 km south ), Chattanooga (190 km southwest), Nashville (278 miles west) and Louisville in Kentucky ( 360 north-northwest ).

Traffic

The U.S. Highway 25 W results in north-south direction as the main road through Clinton and meets in the center on the Tennessee State Routes 9 and 61 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

Meet In the city of Clinton for freight traffic to each other several railway lines.

The nearest airport is 53.2 kilometers south to McGhee Tyson Airport in Alcoa, south of Knoxville.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Clinton 9841 people in 4419 households. The population density was 332.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 4419 households lived statistically 2.2 persons each.

The racial the population was composed of 94.9 percent white, 2.0 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.3 percent were 65 years or older. 53.0 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 39,614. The per capita income was $ 21,966. 11.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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