Oil City (Louisiana)
Caddo Parish
22-57590
Oil City is a small town ( with a status of " Town" ) in Caddo Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. In 2010, Oil City had 1008 inhabitants.
Oil City is part of the metropolitan area of Shreveport- Bossier City on the Red River.
Geography
Oil City is located in northwest Louisiana on the north shore of Caddo Lake, approximately 15 km west of the Red River and about 5 km east of the border with Texas. The border with Arkansas is located about 40 km north. The geographical coordinates of Oil City 32 ° 44'32 " north latitude and 93 ° 58'28 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 4.9 km ².
Neighbouring places of Oil City, Vivian (14,5 km to the north ), Hosston (24,7 km northeast), Gilliam ( 19.2 km ENE ), Belcher (16,7 km to the east), Blanchard ( 21.2 km SSE ) and Mooringsport (7.3 km south).
The center of Shreveport is located 33.7 km south east. The nearest other cities are Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (425 km south-east ), Louisiana's largest city of New Orleans ( 546 km in the same direction), Lafayette ( 383 km south-southeast ), Beaumont, Texas (344 km south), Texas ' largest city, Houston ( 396 km south-west ), Dallas, Texas (308 miles west), Arkansas ' capital Little Rock (322 km northeast) and Mississippi's capital Jackson (380 km east).
Traffic
In the city of Oil City Louisiana Highways 1 hit, 530 and 538 together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Oil City a railroad Kansas City Southern from the north runs in a north -south direction to Shreveport.
The nearest airports are the Shreveport Regional Airport (43 km south-southeast ) and the greater Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport (342 km west).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Oil City in 1008 people in 418 households. The population density was 205.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 418 households lived statistically 2.41 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 56.8 percent white, 40.5 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
28.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.2 percent were 65 years or older. 52.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 22,784. The per capita income was $ 15,293. 31.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.