Los Alamos (New Mexico)

Los Alamos County

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Los Alamos (Spanish for The Poplars ) is a town in Los Alamos County, New Mexico with 12.019 inhabitants. In the city, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is where the Manhattan Project was carried out. Los Alamos is at the center in 1976, completed the same color series of the photographer William Eggleston.

Geography

The expansion of the local is 28.1 km ².

Demography

In the 2000 census, the city had 11,909 inhabitants and 5,110 households. The population density is 423.8 inhabitants / km ².

Of the 5,110 households 31.4 % have children under the age of 18, 56.4 % are married couples, 6.5% are single women and 34% are non-families. 29.8 % are single-person households and 7.6 % of cases there is a person over 65 years. The average size of a household is 2.31 ​​and the average family size is 2.89.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Carol Cady, track and field athlete
• Michael Creutz, theoretical physicist
• Drew Goddard, writer

Twinning

• Sarov, Russia