Westport (Washington)

Grays Harbor County

53-77630

Westport is a town in Grays Harbor County in the U.S. state of Washington. At the time of the census of 2000, there were 2137 inhabitants in Westport.

Geography

Westport geographical coordinates are 46 ° 53 'N, 124 ° 7' W46.890833333333 - 124.11. The area of ​​the city is as specified by the United States Census Bureau, 11.0 km ²; of which 9.3 km ² on land, 1.6 km ² (or 14.86 %) is water.

Westport is located on a peninsula on the south side of the opening of Grays Harbor to the Pacific Ocean. The public Westport Marina is the largest marina on the western seaboard of the U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest.

The marina is home port to a commercial fishing fleet and several boats engaged in fishing on tourist base. A circulating in summer only ferry connects the city to Ocean Shores on the north, opposite side of the sea opening.

History

Westport became a town on 26 June 1914. Earlier names for the settlement were Peterson 's Point Chehalis City. Prior to the city's founding existed under the name Ft. Chehalis in 1860 a branch. The area was used during the summer by Indians, who came most likely from the area of ​​Shoalwater Bay, before Thomas Barker Speake and his family in the early summer of 1857 settled here.

Demography

The living here in 2137 inhabitants distributed on the outcome of the 2000 census, 983 households, and 547 families.

The population density was 229.2 inhabitants per km ² and the density of 1358 housing units results in an average value of 145.6 / apartments per km ². The races of inhabitants spread over 92.75 % White, 0.33 % African American, 3.09 % Native American, 0.94% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, and 0.47% other races Related; 2.39 % reported two or more races to belong. As a Hispanic or Latino of any Rasser referred to 2.99% of the population.

In 23.2 % of households children lived under 18, 42.9 % are married couples living together, and 8.7 % of households consisted of women living alone without a husband; 44.3 % of households were non-families. 34.8 % of all households consisted of individuals and 14.8% lived in someone 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family consisted of 2.79 persons.

The population was spread out in age as follows: 22.0% under the age of 18, 6.7 % from 18 to 24 years, 24.8% 25-44 years 27.3 % from 45 to 64 and 19.1 % were 65 or more years old. The mean age was 43 years, 100 females there were 98.1 men for every 100 women in the age 18 and over 91.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city reached 32,037 U.S. dollars and the average income per family amounted to 40 037 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was significantly higher with 33 173 compared to 23,889 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income was 17,362 dollars. Had about 9.0 % of families and 14.3 % of the population had an income below the poverty line, including 23.4 % of minors and 4.6 % of those age 65 or over.