Hampton (Florida)

Bradford County

12-28575

Hampton is a city in Bradford County in the U.S. state of Florida with 500 inhabitants (as of 2010).

Geography

Hampton is located approximately 10 km south of Starke and about 70 km southwest of Jacksonville.

Demographics

According to the 2010 census, the then 500 inhabitants distributed in 232 households. The population density was 185.2 inh. / Km ². 87.4 % of the population were white and 9.0 % African American. 1.4% were members of other ethnic groups and 2.2% in different ethnic groups. 1.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino.

In 2010, children under the age of 18 and 32.8 % of all households lived in 37.0 % of all households with persons at least 65 years. 64.1 % of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or a parent with offspring ). The average size of a household was 2.60 persons and the average family size is 3.12 people.

29.2% of the population were younger than 20 years, 23.8 % were 20-39 years old, 25.8 % were 40-59 years old and 21.2% were at least 60 years old. The median age was 37 years. 49.0 % of the population were male and 51.0 % female.

The average annual income was $ 33,403, while 21.5 % of the population lived below the poverty line.

In 2000, English was the mother tongue of 100 % of the population.

Traffic

Hampton is crossed by U.S. Highway 301 ( SR 200). The nearest airport is Gainesville Regional Airport ( around 25 km south-west ).

Crime

The crime rate in 2010 was 165 points ( U.S. average: 266 points ) in the low range. There were two injuries, three burglaries, theft and car theft.

Corruption scandal

The city has extended the mid-1990s their city in the form of a narrow strip to the nearby U.S. Highway 301. This was done with the intention to supplement the city finances by conducting speed checks on the route section in the urban area. The increasingly excessive inspections carried out, which together brought in solely in the 2010 to 2012 about 600,000 U.S. dollars, aroused resentment in population policy and the surrounding area. A government audit found among other serious irregularities in 2014 that the city could not provide accounting records and substantial sums of money were misappropriated. The extent of the violations and the inability of the city to put their management on a new footing, led to the government threatened to disband the city as a local authority.