Williamson County (Texas)
The Williamson County is a county located in the state of Texas in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Georgetown.
Geography
The County is located about 100 km east of the geographic center of Texas and has an area of 2939 square kilometers, of which 31 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered clockwise to the following counties: Bell County, Milam County, Lee County, Bastrop County, Travis County and Burnet County.
History
Williamson County was formed in 1848 from parts of Milam County. It was named for Robert McAlpin Williamson, a leader and veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto.
On 27 May 1997, the County experienced with the Jarrell tornado with an F5 tornado, the city had Jarrell, Texas struck on 27 May 1997, one of the worst storms in its history. The tornado killed 27 people and was thus the second most dangerous tornado nineties. The trunk was full 1.2 km wide. The cyclone track with ground contact of the proboscis was 12.2 km.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census in 2000 lived in Williamson County 249 967 people in 86 766 households and 66 983 families. The population density was 86 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 82.41 percent White, 5.12 percent African American, 0.45 percent Native American, 2.64 percent Asian, 0.08 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 7.19 percent from other races groups; 2.11 percent were descended from two or more races. 17.20 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 86 766 households out of which 43.9 per cent of children or young people who lived with them. 64.0 percent were married couples living together, 9.6 percent were single mothers and 22.8 percent were non-families. 17.6 percent of all households and 4.6 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.21 persons.
30.0 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 8.1 percent between 18 to 24, 35.6 percent between 25 and 44, 19.1 percent between 45 and 64 and 7.4 percent were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 99.3 males to 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.7 males.
The median income for a household was $ 60,642, and the median income for a family was $ 66,208. Males have a median income of $ 43,471, women $ 30,558. The per capita income was $ 24,547. 3.4 percent of families and 4.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Cities and Towns
- Andice
- Austin
- Beyer Ville
- Brushy Creek
- Cedar Park
- Coupland
- Florence
- Frame Switch
- Friendship
- Georgetown
- Granger
- Hare
- Hoxie
- Hutto
- Jarrell
- Jollyville
- Jonah
- Lane Port
- Leander
- Liberty Hill
- Monadale
- New Corn Hill
- Noack
- Norman's Crossing
- Old Round Rock
- Rices Crossing
- Round Rock
- Sandoval
- Schwertner
- Sun City
- Taylor
- Theon
- Thrall
- Three Points
- Volente
- Walburg
- Waterloo
- Weir
- Whitestone