Chickasaw is a town/city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
Enumeration the populace is 6,106, a diminish from 6,364 in 2000. It is encompassed in the Mobile urbane statistical area.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.6 square miles (12 km2), of which 4.4 square miles (11 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (3.06%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,364 citizens , 2,747 homeholds, and 1,747 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.89% White, 8.12% Black or African American, 1.35% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other competitions, and 1.08% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,747 homeholds out of which 26.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.6% were married couples living together, 15.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families.
32.9% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 18.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace dispersal was 23.6% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $27,036, and the median income for a family was $33,125.
About 13.0% of families and 17.1% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 25.1% of those under age 18 and 13.9% of those age 65 or over.
As of the census of 2010, there were 6,106 citizens , 2,430 homeholds, and 1,612 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 63.0% White, 33.6% Black or African American, .8% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 0.9% from other competitions, and 1.2% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,430 homeholds out of which 29.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 22.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families.
In the city, the populace dispersal was 26.9% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $33,061, and the median income for a family was $40,625.
About 18.9% of families and 20.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 30.0% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.
Chickasaw's enhance schools are inside the Chickasaw City Schools district.
The town/city voted to form its own school fitness in 2012. Chicksaw's enhance schools were previously directed by the Mobile County Public School System.
One elementary school, Hamilton Elementary School, was inside the Chickasaw town/city limits and serves Chickasaw residents.
In addition two magnet high schools, Chickasaw School of Mathematics and Science and the Clark School of Mathematics, Science and Technology, were in the city. Residents zoned to Hamilton are also zoned to Chastang Middle School. Several years before to 2009 officials of Chickasaw, Satsuma, and Saraland contemplated forming the "Delta School District." Around 2009 Chickasaw officials considered starting a plan to secede from the Mobile County school fitness after Mobile County officials considered method the Chickasaw magnets, which together have a combined total of 14% Chickasaw residents; the rest of the students came from other locations, including the unincorporated region of Grand Bay.
Mobile County considered moving the magnets to Shaw High School in Mobile. Immediately after the split, the Chickasaw School of Mathematics and Science continued to be positioned in Chickasaw, but inhabitants of Chickasaw were required to pay $2,200 per year per child in order to attend the school. In January 2013 the Mobile County school board decided to move the Mathematics and Science school to the former Howard Elementary School near Downtown Mobile. The present site of Chickasaw was, in the early 20th century before the town/city now standing was incorporated, a business town, wholly owned by companies such as the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation.
501 (1946)), which stated that despite being a privately owned town, because it functioned as a town open to the public, the right conferred by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution cannot be abridged.
Chickasaw as a town/city was incorporated in 1946 as a ship assembly town.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013".
"Chickasaw, Satsuma school officials: Today is a day for the history books." "Chickasaw officials to examine possible school split." Mobile County Public School System.
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