Port Huron, Michigan
St. Clair County
26-65820
Port Huron is a city in St. Clair County, Michigan in the United States and also the County Seat. The City is the township of the same name adjacent to but administratively independent. In 2000, the city had 32,338 inhabitants
Geography
The area of the city is 31.7 km ², of which 20.9 km ² of land and 10.8 km ² omitted ( = 33.99% ) in the aquatic environment.
The city lies at the southern end of Lake Huron and is also the most easterly town in Michigan. It belongs to an area of Michigan, which is called the Thumb. Through the Blue Water Bridge Port Huron is connected in Canada Sarnia, Ontario. This crosses the St. Clair River and binds the Canadian Highway 402 to the U.S. highways Interstate 69 and Interstate 94.
The Michigan State Route 25 follows in a curve of the shoreline of the Saginaw Bay of Lake and connects Port Huron to Bay City.
The Railway Company Canadian National operates under the St. Clair River a railway tunnel, which is traveled only by freight trains because of the strict border formalities of Americans, but not by long-distance trains of Amtrak in relation Chicago - Toronto.
History
The Students for a Democratic Society adopted in 1962 in Port Huron, the basic concepts of its policy positions in the so-called Port Huron Statement.
Management
The city is run by a city council that determines a city manager and then projecting the administration. He supervises the administrative affairs of the City and carries out the decisions of the City Council. As the chief administrative officer of the City of the City Manager has the option to appoint administrators to a particular item or to dismiss them. The city council consists of the mayor and six other members who stay two years in office.
Demographic data
At the time of the census of 2000, there were 32 338 people in Port Huron. The population density was 1545.3 people per km ². There were 14,003 housing units at an average 669.1 per km ². The population consisted of 86.69 % White, 7.74% Black or African American, 0.87 % Native Americans, 0.55 % Asian American, 0.01 % Pacific Islander, 1.32 % reported from other races, and 2.81 % from two or more races. 4.28 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.9 % of the population German, 10.1% Irish, 9.4% and 6.1% Polish British ancestors.
The residents of Port Huron distributed to 12,961 households out of which 32.4 % were living in children under 18 years. 39.8 % married couples living together, 17.5 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.9 % were non-families. 31.9 % of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 13.2 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size is 3.04.
The city population was spread out with 27.0 % under the, 9.7 % 18 -24- year-old, 29.6 % 25 -44- year-old, 19.6% 45-64 year olds and 14.0 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 90.7 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 86.1 males.
The median household income in Port Huron was 31 327 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the level of 39 869 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 32 053 U.S. dollars, compared to 22 113 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income in Port Huron was 17,100 U.S. dollars. 16.9 % of the population and 13.4 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 21.5 % of minors and 14.2 % of those age 65 or over.
Memorable people
- N. Ashton Graybiel (1902-1995), a cardiologist and specialist in space medicine; Director of sensory physiology laboratories of NASA in Pensacola
- Colleen Moore, Actress