FL State Female College, Tallahassee, FL
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Tallahassee, FL
Class: Medium-sized city
Class rank: 2
As the state capital and home to two major colleges, the city has grown dramatically over the past decade. Unemployment is low. Arts spending is high, but support of the public library system falls short.
Combined college enrollment: 46,097
Population: 150,624
Population change, 1990-2000: 20.70%
Median age: 26.3
(National: 35.3)
Per capita income: $18,981
(National: $21,587)
Unemployment rate: 2.3%
(National: 4.0%)
Owner-occupied housing: 40.6%
Public library expenditures, per capita: $20.70
Community profiles:
Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee demographics
College profiles:
Florida State University
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
Notes:
1. All figures are for the years 1999-2000.
2. Combined enrollment figures are for the four-year colleges included in this
survey.
3. Unemployment rates are an annual average.
4. Per-capita income and unemployment rates are county-level statistics.
For more on the sources and statistics used in this study, see methodology.
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TOP-RANKED COLLEGE TOWNS
BY COMMUNITY SIZE |
| BIG CITIES |
1 Boston-Cambridge, MA
2 Minneapolis, MN
3 Denver, CO
4 Columbus, OH
5 Seattle, WA
6 Atlanta, GA
7 Austin, TX
8 Washington, DC
9 Cincinnati, OH
10 Saint Louis, MO
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| MEDIUM-SIZED CITIES |
1 Columbia, SC
2 Tallahassee, FL
3 Madison, WI
4 Urbana-Champaign, IL
5 Ann Arbor, MI
6 Berkeley, CA
7 Athens, GA
8 Fort Collins, CO
9 New Haven, CT
10 Provo, UT
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| SMALL CITIES |
1 Charlottesville, VA
2 Bozeman, MT
3 Hays, KS
4 Boulder, CO
5 Missoula, MT
6 Manhattan, KS
7 Burlington, VT
8 Bismarck, ND
9 Iowa City, IA
10 Chapel Hill,
NC
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| TOWNS |
1 Hanover, NH
2 Princeton, NJ
3 Brookings, SD
4 Middlebury, VT
5 Durango, CO
6 Bronxville, NY
7 Menomonie, WI
8 Oneonta, NY
9 Rolla, MO
10 Conway, SC
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