Rockwall County, Texas
The Rockwall County is a county located in the state of Texas in the United States. The seat of the county government ( county seat ) is located in Rockwall.
Geography
The County is located north-east of the geographic center of Texas, is in the north about 80 miles from Oklahoma and belongs to the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. It has an area of 385 square kilometers, of which 52 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered clockwise to the following counties: Collin County, Hunt County, Kaufman County and Dallas County.
History
Rockwall County was formed in 1873 from parts of Kaufman County. It was named after the eponymous site of the later County.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2000 lived in Rockwall County 43.080 people in 14,530 households and 11,972 families. The population density was 129 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 89.17 percent White, 3.24 percent African American, 0.40 percent Native American, 1.32 percent Asian, 0.05 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 4.45 percent from other races groups; 1.37 percent were descended from two or more races. 11.07 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 14,530 households out of which 44.4 per cent of children or young people who lived with them. 71.0 percent were married couples living together, 8.0 percent were single mothers and 17.6 percent were non-families. 14.4 percent of all households and 4.4 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the average family size was 3.23 persons.
30.1 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 7.0 percent between 18 to 24, 31.1 percent between 25 and 44, 23.3 percent between 45 and 64 and 8.6 percent were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 100.8 males to 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.9 males.
The median income for a household was $ 65,164, and the median income for a family was $ 71,448. Males have a median income of $ 49,636, women $ 32,410. The per capita income was $ 28,573. 3.8 percent of families and 4.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Cities and Towns
- Black country
- Chisholm
- Dallas
- Fate
- Glen Hill
- Heath
- McLendon
- McLendon -Chisholm
- Mobile City
- Munson
- Rockwall
- Rowlett
- Royse City
- Wylie