Sitting over a thousand feet above sea level, and with a population that exceed 250,000 is the state of Nevada’s second most populous city – that of Henderson. Technically Henderson is inside the Las Vegas metropolitan area, and with places like Green Valley and Lake Las Vegas it is an extremely popular place to live.
The United States Census Bureau reckons that Henderson city is 79.7 square miles in total area, whereas the city itself thinks that it is a larger 94.5 square miles. Whoever is right they both concur that the city is surrounded by gently sloping mountains covered in black volcanic ash from millions of years ago. The highest of these mountains is an impressive 3,800 feet.
Finding a decent Henderson home for sale is a challenge because it is such a popular area, but before you consider taking that plunge you should certainly make every effort to read articles like this one which give you some factual guidelines.
The city has been growing fast and if we look back to 2000 there were just 175,381 people living in Henderson in 66,331 households that contained 47,095 families. That made for a population density of 2,200.8 people per square mile, and meant that the housing units had an average density of 892.8 square miles. In terms of race there were 80.49% White and 3.76% African American, which is not in line with Clark County as a whole.
With over sixty six thousand households to analyze it is interested to note that thirty three percent of them had children below eighteen living in them and fifty four percent of households had married couples living in them. On the other hand twenty nine percent of them were not families at all. In total twenty five percent of the population was under eighteen so this is a growing town of families that have an average income over fifty thousand dollars per household.
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