Gonzales (Louisiana)
Ascension Parish
22-29850
Gonzales is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. In 2010, Gonzales had 9781 inhabitants.
Gonzales is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Baton Rouge.
Geography
Gonzales is located in the central southeastern Louisiana, far from the left bank of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates are 30 ° 14'19 Gonzales ' north latitude and 90 ° 55'12 "west longitude. The urban area of Gonzales covers an area of 22 km ².
Towns nearby Gonzales are Galvez (8.4 km north- north-east ), Sorrento (9.3 km to the southeast ), Burnside (11,2 km south), Donaldsonville ( 27.8 km SSW ), Geismar (11 km west-southwest ), Saint Gabriel (19 miles west) and Prairieville (9.3 km to the northwest ).
The nearest large towns are Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge ( 31.1 km upstream in north- west ) and largest city of Louisiana New Orleans ( 92.4 km downstream southeasterly direction).
Traffic
Interstate 10 runs through the southwestern part of the urban area of Gonzales. In parallel runs through the northeast of the city of designated in this section as Airline Highway U.S. Highway 61 Both roads connect Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
In addition to the U.S. 61 runs for freight railway line of the Kansas City Southern.
With the Louisiana Regional Airport is located on the southern outskirts of a small airfield. The next airports are the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (51 km north-west ) and the larger Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ( 77.1 km east-southeast ).
History
After the region of today's alternately belonged to Spain and France, it was in 1804 by the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.
In 1886 ( Joseph Gonzales ), the first sheriff was elected to the small settlement with José Gonzáles, according to which the present town is named.
In 1922 the town was incorporated by proclamation of the Governor John M. Parker Village of Gonzales. 1952, the municipality status was changed to " Town".
The industrialization in the 1950s, the population continued to grow. In 1977, she was finally collected by city proclamation of the Governor Edwin Edwards to the City of Gonzales.
Since 1967, the Jambalaya Festival takes place every year in Gonzales.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Gonzales 9781 people in 3673 households. The population density was 444.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3673 households lived statistically 1359 people each.
The racial the population was composed of 48.8 percent white, 44.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 1.1 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 4.0 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 8.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.2 percent were 65 years or older. 52.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 47,640. The per capita income was $ 23,960. 27.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Twinning
Since 1985 is twinned with the French town of Meylan.