Pasco (Washington)

Franklin County

53-53545

Pasco is a city in the U.S. state of Washington with 59 781 inhabitants ( 2010) in the United States and the administrative center ( county seat ) of Franklin County. It lies at the mouth of the Snake in the Columbia River.

Demography

At the time of the census in 2000 ( U.S. Census 2000), the town had 32 066 inhabitants on a land area of ​​72.7 km ². The average age was 26.6 years ( national U.S. average: 35.3 years ). The per capita income (English per capita income) was ( the national average of the United States: 21,587 U.S. dollars) at 13,404 U.S. dollars. 23.3 % of residents were with their income below the poverty line ( national U.S. average: 12.4 %). Approximately 7.7 % of the inhabitants are of German descent Pascos,

In the census in 2010 ( U.S. Census 2010), the city had already 59 781 inhabitants. An estimate for the population of 2011 is already out of 63 186, the city's growth is thus almost four times as high as the average growth in the state of Washington, whose growth is itself already well above the average for the United States.

Others

Pasco is one of the two neighboring cities Kennewick and Richland to the Tri-Cities metropolitan area, in which about 200,000 people. The metropolitan area has a native to Pasco airport, the Tri -Cities Airport.