Population: 278,520 (+0.4% change)
Males: 135,572 (48.9%), Females: 141,882 (51.1%)
County: Nueces
Land area: 154.6 square miles
Median resident age: 33.2 years Median household income: $36,414
Races in Corpus Christi:
- Hispanic (54.3%)
- White Non-Hispanic (38.5%)
- Other race (18.6%)
- Black (4.7%)
- Two or more races (3.1%)
- American Indian (1.1%)
- Filipino (0.5%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: German (8.9%), Irish (6.5%), English (5.7%), United States (4.2%), French (1.9%), Scotch-Irish (1.6%).
For population 25 years and over in Corpus Christi
- High school or higher: 75.8%
- Bachelor's degree or higher: 19.6%
- Graduate or professional degree: 7.2%
- Unemployed: 7.3%
- Mean travel time to work: 19.7 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Corpus Christi city
- Never married: 26.8%
- Now married: 52.1%
- Separated: 3.0%
- Widowed: 6.4%
- Divorced: 11.8%
6.7% Foreign born (4.8% Latin America, 1.0% Asia).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: San Antonio, TX (140.7 miles, pop. 1,144,646).
Nearest cities: Doyle, TX (10.7 miles),
Portland, TX (11.2 miles),
Tierra Grande, TX (12.6 miles),
Ingleside on the Bay, TX (13.7 miles),
Gregory, TX (14.4 miles),
Taft Southwest, TX (15.7 miles),
Ingleside, TX (16.1 miles),
Taft, TX (16.3 miles).
Single-family new house construction building permits:
- 1996: 1018 buildings, average cost: $89,200
- 1997: 817 buildings, average cost: $93,800
- 1998: 902 buildings, average cost: $103,900
- 1999: 640 buildings, average cost: $105,400
- 2000: 651 buildings, average cost: $109,900
- 2001: 858 buildings, average cost: $97,900
- 2002: 985 buildings, average cost: $111,500
- 2003: 1203 buildings, average cost: $101,000
Area code: 361
Industries providing employment: Educational,health and social services (23.2%), Retail trade (12.2%).
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