Fairborn, Ohio

Greene County

39-25914

Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Fairborn is a suburb of Dayton, the Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The Wright State University is located within the city limits of Fairborn, but has an address of the city Dayton. Fairborn had 2000 32.050 inhabitants in the census year.

The name " Fairborn " is a portmanteau of the names of the cities of Fairfield and Osborn.

History

The original dates of his two areas of Fairborn are for 1816 or 1851 for Fairfield Osborn.

After the Great Dayton Flood in 1913 and the resulting slow silting of the territory Osborne had to move closer and closer to Fairfield, until the two cities united by one vote in 1949 in 1950.

It is close to the Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, on the historic grounds of the Wright brothers made ​​their first flight tests is.

Demography

According to the census of 2000, there were 32,052 people; it was counted 13,615 households, and 8,019 families. The population density was 948 inhabitants per km ². There 14,419 housing units were recorded. The racial the population was composed of 87.28 % White, 6.27 % African American, 0.40 % Native American, 3.32 % Asian, 0.06 % Pacific Islander residents from the and 0.53 % from other ethnic groups; 2.14 % said the lineage of several ethnicities. 1.69 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 13,615 households out of which 26.7 % have children living with them. 42.8 % were married couples living together, 12.4 % had a female householder with no husband, and 41.1% were non-families. 31.0 % of all households are made up and 8.3% had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size 2.86.

The population was spread out with 21.0% under the age of 18, 18.4 % from 18 to 24, 29.3% 25-44 years, 19.7% from 45 to 64 years and 11.6 % of 65 years or older. The average age (median) was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 94.7 males to 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.7 males.

The median income for a household (median) was $ 36 889, and the median income for a family $ 44,608. Males have a median income of $ 34,853, women $ 25,353. The per capita income was $ 18,662. Under the poverty line 8.9 % of families and 35.1 % of the population, including 15.5 % of the population under the age of 18 and 7.7 % of the population lived at the age of 65 years or older.