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Demographics
and Reports
Lots of reasons to make Vicksburg your home base
Geography
Vicksburg
is located at
32°20′10″N 90°52′31″W/ 32.33611°N
90.87528°/ 32.33611; -90.87528 (32.335986,
-90.875356).
The city has a total area of 35.3 square miles
(98.32 kmē), of which, 32.9 square miles
(85.2 kmē) of it is land and 2.4 square
miles (6.2 kmē) of it (6.78%) is water. It is
located at the confluence of the Mississippi River and
Yazoo River Diversion Canal.
Warren
County Census
As
of the census of 2000, there were 49,644 people,
18,756 households, and 13,222 families residing in the
county. The population density was 85 people per
square mile (33/kmē). There were 20,789 housing units
at an average density of 35 per square mile
(14/kmē).
Racial
Makeup
The
racial makeup of the county was 54.97% White, 43.19%
Black or African American, 0.23% Native American,
0.62% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.33% from other
races, and 0.66% from two or more races. 1.04% of the
population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
2005 census estimates
based on the American Community Survey suggested that
non-Hispanic whites were 51.5% of Warren County's
population. This meant that Warren County was the only
county in Mississippi along the Mississippi River
besides Desoto County where whites formed a majority
of the population.
African-Americans
now were 46.0% of the county's population. People
reporting two or more races seemed to have declined to
0.6%, however due to new counting procedures where
people who marked some-other race and white were
counted as just white this probably does not indicate
an actual decline in people being willing to identify
themselves as being of multiple racial origins. The
Latino population was now 1.2% of the total for the
county.
Household
Makeup
In
2000 there were 18,756 households out of which 35.60%
had children under the age of 18 living with them,
46.80% were married couples living together, 19.10%
had a female householder with no husband present, and
29.50% were non-families. 25.80% of all households
were made up of individuals and 9.70% had someone
living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The
average household size was 2.61 and the average family
size was 3.14.
In
the county the population was spread out with 28.50%
under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 28.40% from
25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 11.70% who were 65
years of age or older. The median age was 35 years.
For every 100 females there were 88.30 males. For
every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.40
males.
Income
The
median income for a household in the county was
$35,056, and the median income for a family was
$41,706. Males had a median income of $33,566 versus
$21,975 for females. The per capita income for the
county was $17,527. About 15.00% of families and
18.70% of the population were below the poverty line,
including 27.80% of those under age 18 and 16.20% of
those age 65 or over.
Warren
County has the tenth highest per capita income in the
State of Mississippi.
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