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- According to the 2000 Census,
78.4%
of Harris County residents were white
and 19.5%
were black. Hispanics, who can be identified as either white or black
in the Census data, made up 1.1%
of the county's population. Statewide, 65.1%
of residents were white, 28.7% were
black and 5.3% were Hispanic.
- In Harris County, 25.6%
of the county’s residents were age 18 or younger,
while 11.9%
were age 65 or older. Statewide, 26.5%
were age 18 or younger and 9.6% were
age 65 or older.
- The 2000 Census reports
5.6%
of Harris County's households were headed by females with
children under 18 years of age, compared with
9.0% statewide.
Total households with children under 18 represented
34.8%
of all households in the county, compared to
35.0%
statewide.
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Between 2001 and 2005, Harris County school system reported
an average high school dropout rate
of 4.7%
for students in grades 9 to 12.
Statewide, this rate is 5.6%
for the same period of time.
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- Harris County
spent an average of $6,222 per
student for public education each year
between 2001 and 2005, while the statewide average
was $6,603.
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Based on the 2004 graduating class for that county school system,
65.6%
of the students were eligible for
the HOPE Scholarship Program. The scholarship is available to eligible
students to attend a post-secondary school in Georgia.
Statewide, 62.0%
of the graduating students were eligible for the HOPE scholarship.
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Between 2000 and 2004, the
infant mortality rate
(infant deaths per 1,000 live births) was
8.1 for the county.
The statewide
rate was 8.6
during the same period.
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In 2002, the number of
physicians
in the county per 100,000 population was
19.9,
compared to the
192.6
statewide average.
Harris County had no general hospitals in 2004.
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The 2004 index crime rate
(crimes per 1,000) for Harris County
was 13.7.
Statewide, in 2004, the rate
was 40.8.
Of the total index crimes reported for that county,
8.0%
were violent crimes,
while 92.0%
were property crimes.
- In 2004, 87.7%
of the adult population in the
county was registered to vote. 70.4%
of the voting-age adult population
for Harris County voted in the 2004 general election.
Statewide, 70.6%
of eligible Georgians were registered to vote, while
55.1%
of those eligible voted in the general election that year.
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| Community |
Population |
Growth (%) |
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1980 |
1990 |
2000 |
1980-1990 |
1990-2000 |
| Hamilton |
506 |
454 |
307 |
-10.3 % |
-32.4 % |
| Pine Mountain |
984 |
949 |
1,141 |
-3.6 % |
20.2 % |
| Shiloh |
392 |
329 |
423 |
-16.1 % |
28.6 % |
| Waverly Hall |
913 |
769 |
709 |
-15.8 % |
-7.8 % |
| Harris |
15,464 |
17,788 |
23,695 |
15.0 % |
33.2 % |
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