Gardendale (Alabama)

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Jefferson County

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Gardendale is a city in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Alabama. It has about 12,200 inhabitants ( 2004) on an area of 46.5 km ².

Geography

Gardendale is located off Interstate 65, one of three main connections between the Midwest and the Gulf Coast. This remote connection results in north-south direction through the city, just off U.S. Highway 31 The built only a few years ago Interstate 22 branches at Gardendale from I- 65 and leads northwestward to Memphis. The main west routes in the urban area of the U.S. 31 westward leading Field Town Road, Tarrant Road and Mt Olive Road. The city is located in the middle of an area that was once the large amount of coal was mined, at the southwest end of the ridge lines of the Appalachian Mountains, which sweeps from east Tennessee to the Northeast Alabama. Several abandoned coal mines dominate the area as well as reforested surface mines. By Gardendale cause no major water bodies, but several streams flow into the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, which flows north and west of the city. The majority of the eastern and northeastern part of the city area is rocky and hilly and crisscrossed with ravines. This part Gardendales is sparsely populated and only limited infrastructure of roads.

The only railway line near leads east over to Gardendale; it serves the freight and will not be driven by passenger trains. The nearest train station, Amtrak is located in about 16 km to the south of Birmingham. Not far from here and the Birmingham International Airport is for commercial air traffic.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, there were 11,626 people Gardendale. The population density was 250.1 people per km ². There were 4959 housing units at an average 106.7 per km ². The population consisted of Gardendales 97.19 % White, 1.48 % African American, 0.17 % Native American, 0.53 % Asian, 0.02 % Pacific Islander, 0.14 % reported other races to belong and 0.47 % from two or more races. 0.65 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Residents Gardendales distributed to 4733 households out of which 28.8 % were living in children under 18 years. 61.3 % married couples living together, 9.6 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.6 % were non-families. 24.6% of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 11.7 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size is 2.88.