On Durham and identity

Duncan Murrell dvmurrell at nc.rr.com
Thu Apr 5 11:26:15 EDT 2007


Census 2000

City of Durham :  201, 726 population, 1,976.4 people per square mile.

Town of Chapel Hill:  48,715 population, 2,466 people per square mile.

Free Republic of Carrboro:  16,782 population, 3,753.7 people per  
square mile.


Durham:  Median income, household:  $41,160; median income, family:   
$51,162; median income, men: $35,202; median income, women:  $30,359;  
per capita income, city:  $22,526.  15% of population below poverty  
line.

Chapel Hill:  Median income, household:  $39,140; median income,  
family:  $88, 200; median income, men:  $50, 258; median income,  
women:  $32, 917; per capita income, town:  $24,133;  21.6% of  
population below poverty line.

Carrboro:  Median income, household:  $33,527; median income,  
family:  $47,330; median income, men:  $30,099; median income,  
women:  $31,090; per capita income, town:  $21,429; 19% of population  
below poverty line.


  What's remarkable isn't that Durham has a burgeoning and supportive  
musical culture, but that we're talking about such a thing being  
remarkable in a city of 201,000 people.

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