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By Job Gal | June 30, 2008
Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city in Texas. The city, named after General Sam Houston, then-President of the Republic of Texas, was founded in 1836 by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
Houston is the economic center of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country with a population of about 5.6 million people.
The booming port and railroad industries, combined with the discovery of oil in 1901, helped the city’s population grow. Houston is known for being home to the Texas Medical Center and NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Texas’s Job Market
Houston is ranked as a gamma world city, and is a leading city in oilfield equipment manufacturing. The Port of Houston is first in the country for international waterborn tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled.
The city’s fastest growing industries are: energy, manufacturing, aeronautics and technology.
Work Trends
Mean travel time to work: 27.4 minutes
Houston’s unemployment rate: 4.2 percent
National unemployment rate: 5 percent
Houston’s Largest Employers
ConocoPhillips
600 N. Dairy Ashford Rd.
Houston, TX 77079
Marathon Oil
5555 San Felipe Rd.
Houston, TX 77056
Sysco
1390 Enclave Pkwy.
Houston, TX 77077
Enterprise GP Holdings
1100 Louisiana St.
Houston, TX 77002
Plains All American Pipeline
333 Clay St.
Houston, TX 77002
Halliburton
1401 McKinney St.
Houston, TX 77010
Continental Airlines1600 Smith St.
Houston, TX 77002
Waste Management1001 Fannin St.
Houston, TX 77002
Knight
500 Dallas St.
Houston, TX 77002
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Continuing Education
Houston Community College System
University of Houston
San Jacinto College
Discovering Houston
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Space Center Houston
Houston Zoo
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston Astros
Houston Texans
Houston Rockets
Houston Statistics
Population
Total population: 2,009,690
Persons under five-years old: 8.2 percent
Persons under 18-years old: 27.5 percent
Persons 65-years and older: 8.4 percent
Female: 50.1 percent
White: 49.3 percent
Black: 25.3 percent
American Indian and Alaska Native: .4 percent
Asian: 5.3 percent
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: .1 percent
Other: 16.5 percent
Multi-racial: 3.1 percent
Hispanic or Latino: 37.4 percent
Education
High school graduates: 70.4 percent
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 27 percent
Housing
Housing units: 782,009
Homeownership rate: 45.8 percent
Median value of owner-occupied housing units: $79,300
Households: 717,945
Persons per household: 2.67
Income
Average salary: $36,894
Median household income: $36,616
Per capita income: $20,101
Persons below poverty: 19.2 percent
Transportation
Highways: 575.5 miles
Airports: George Bush Intercontinental, William P. Hobby, Ellington Field
Railroads: The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County , Amtrak (Sunset Limited)
Weather
Average precipitation: 47.84 inches
Average low temp. in January: 41.2 degrees
Average high temp. in July: 93.6 degrees
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