Klamath Falls, Oregon

Klamath County

41-39700

Klamath Falls (also known as K Falls) is a small town and the administrative center ( county seat ) of the Klamath County in Southern Oregon.

The town has 19,400 inhabitants (as of 2000) in an area of ​​48.5 square kilometers. The town was originally called Link Ville ( for the link River, where the waterfall hits ) when George Nurse founded the town in 1867. Since 1892, the place is called Klamath Falls. Klamath Falls was the town charter in 1905. Today it has one of the highest unemployment rates in Oregon, which is at the collapse of the timber industry. The Oregon Citizens Alliance was founded here.

The indigenous people of the Klamath lived here for several centuries. The name comes from Yulalona or Iwauna ago.

The main industries are timber, potato farming and tourism. Klamath Falls offers a variety of summer and winter activities, including ice skating arena Bill Collier Community Ice Arena.

In the vicinity is the Upper Klamath Lake, the largest natural lake in the Pacific Northwest.

Demography

According to the census of 2000, there were 19,462 people in Klamath Falls. Of these, 754 people were living in collective centers, the other residents living in 7,916 households and 4,670 families. The population density was 421 people per square kilometer. There 8,722 residential units were recorded. The racial the population was made ​​up of 85.12 percent White, 1.02 percent African American, 4.44 percent Native American, 1.32 percent Asian, 0.13 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 4.15 percent from other races groups; 3.83 per cent reported the derivation of several ethnicities. 9.32 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 7,916 households out of which 30.0 per cent of children or young people who lived with them. 42.2 percent were married couples living together, 11.7 percent were single mothers and 41.0 percent were non-families. 32.4 percent of all households and 11.9 percent lived in people aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size 2.99.

The population was spread out with 25.5 percent under the age of 18, 13.1 percent from 18 to 24, 27.2 percent 25-44 years, 21.5 percent from 45 to 64 years and 12.8 percent of 65 years or older. The average age (median) was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 101.9 males to 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.1 males.

The median income for a household (median) was $ 28,498, and the median income for a family $ 37,021. Males had a median income of $ 31,567, women $ 22,313. The per capita income was $ 16,710. Under the poverty line lived 16.2 percent of families and 21.9 percent of the population, including 26.8 percent of the population under the age of 18 and 9.5 percent of residents aged 65 years or older.

The following table lists the population of Klamath Falls since 1890, according to the results of the censuses from 1890 to 2000 and a projection for 2007 by the United States Census Bureau:

Sons and daughters of the town

• Sharron Angle (* 1949), politician
• Brenda Bakke ( born 1963 ), actress
• Lana Walter ( born 1948 ), music educator and composer