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Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA,
located about nine miles (14 km) northwest from Downtown Phoenix.
According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is
246,531.
Glendale bills itself as “Arizona’s Antique Capital,” with support for
its claim from both Sunset Magazine and a 1998 article in USA Today.
Glendale is home to the popular Arrowhead Towne Center mall in the
northwest part of the city. Glendale also is home to the metro Phoenix
area's first medical school, Midwestern, as well as a major
post-graduate international business school, the Thunderbird School of
Global Management.
The city will have an extension of the Valley Metro light rail transit
line which has a scheduled completion date of 2011.In 1880, the land that is now Glendale was nothing
more than empty desert. But in 1882, William J. Murphy joined three
Arizona builders, M.W. Kales, William A. Hancock and Clark Churchill, to
lead the Arizona Canal Co. project, which would bring water to the
desert land. With the help of 225 mules and whatever machinery was
available, Murphy and his team completed the canal in May 1885.
Over the years, Glendale grew to become one of the most culturally
diverse cities in the Valley. The city owes much of its heritage to
early Hispanic settlers as well as Japanese and Russians who moved to
Glendale from California.
Glendale today is the sports destination for all
of Arizona, as Jobing.com Arena and NHL Coyotes continue to attract fans
to new growth in the far western areas of the city. The state-of-the-art
University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. is also host to the
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and BCS Championship games as well as the 2008
Super Bowl. The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers of Major
League Baseball both moved to Glendale and share a facility, known as
Camelback Ranch, for spring training 2009.
Demograph
Population in July 2007: 253,152. Population change
since 2000: +13.5%
Males: 126,300 (49.9%)
Females: 126,852 (50.1%)
Median resident age: 30.8 years
Zip codes: 85301, 85302, 85303, 85304, 85305, 85306, 85307, 85308,
85310, 85311, 85312, 85313, 85318.
Estimated median household income in 2007: $49,493 (it was $45,015 in
2000)
Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $240,000 (it was
$113,300 in 2000)
Mean prices in 2007: All housing units: $275,700; Detached houses:
$303,306; Townhouses or other attached units: $164,318; In 2-unit
structures: $124,500; In 3-to-4-unit structures: $143,556; In
5-or-more-unit structures: $139,022; Mobile homes: $33,028
Median gross rent in 2007: $831
.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2007: 17.1%
- White Non-Hispanic (64.7%)
- Hispanic (24.8%)
- Other race (12.0%)
- Black (4.7%)
- Two or more races (3.5%)
- American Indian (2.1%)
- Chinese (0.6%)
For population 25 years and over in Glendale
- High school or higher: 82.4%
- Bachelor's degree or higher: 21.0%
- Graduate or professional degree: 7.1%
- Unemployed: 5.0%
- Mean travel time to work: 28.2 minutes
For
population 15 years and over in Glendale city
- Never married: 26.9%
- Now married: 54.6%
- Separated: 2.1%
- Widowed: 4.9%
- Divorced: 11.5%
27,797
residents are foreign |
