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Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It
is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the
2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. The Dayton
metropolitan area, or Greater Dayton, which includes the communities
of Vandalia, Trotwood, Kettering, Centerville, Beavercreek, West
Carrollton, Huber Heights, Troy, and Miamisburg, had a population of
843,577 as of the 2005 estimate. Dayton is situated within the Miami
Valley region of Ohio, just north of the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
Dayton plays host to significant industrial, aerospace,
technological, and engineering research activity and is known for the
many inventions and technical innovations developed here. The city
was the home of the Wright brothers, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and
entrepreneur John H. Patterson. The Dayton area is home to several
major international, national, and regional corporations, including
Reynolds & Reynolds, Liberty Bank, Standard Register, WorkflowOne
(formally Relizon), Huffy Bicycles, LexisNexis, and Mead prior to
becoming MeadWestvaco.
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Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796 by a small
group of US settlers seven years before the admission of Ohio to
the Union in 1803. The town was incorporated in 1805 and given
its name after Jonathan Dayton, a captain in the American
Revolutionary War and signer of the U.S. Constitution.
In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper laid out the Mad River
Road, the first overland connection between Cincinnati, Ohio and
Dayton. This opened up the "Mad River Country" at Dayton and the
upper Miami Valley to settlement.
The Miami and Erie Canal, built in the 1830s,
connected the Dayton commerce from Lake Erie via the Great Miami
River and served as the principal route of transportation for
western Ohio until the 1850s.
The catastrophic Great Dayton Flood of March 1913
severely affected much of the city, stimulated the growth of
suburban communities outside central Dayton in areas lying
further from the Miami River and on higher ground, and led to
the establishment of the Miami Conservancy District in 1914. The
flood remains an event of note in popular memory and local
histories. The high waters damaged some of the Wright Brothers'
glass plate photographic negatives of their glider flights at
Kitty Hawk and power flights over Huffman Prairie near Dayton.
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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 166,179
people, 67,409 households, and 37,614 families residing in the
city. The population density was 1,150.3/km˛ (2,979.4/mi˛).
There were 77,321 housing units at an average density of
535.2/km˛ (1,386.3/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city was
53.40% White, 43.10%% Black or African American, 0.30% Native
American, 0.65% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.70% from other
races, and 1.83% from two or more races. 1.58% of the population
were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Dayton remains largely
segregated, with African Americans residing on the West and
Whites on the East in the City Proper.
Households
There were 67,409 households out of which 27.3% had
children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.2% were
married couples living together, 20.6% had a female householder
with no husband present, and 44.2% were non-families. 36.8% of
all households were made up of individuals and 11.3% had someone
living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average
household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 3.04.
Age structure and gender ratio
The age structure of Dayton's population is:
- under 18 years: 25.1%
- 18 to 24 years: 14.2%
- 25 to 44 year: 29.0%
- 45 to 64 years: 19.6%
- 65 years of age or older: 12.0%
The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females
there were 93.1 males, while For every 100 females age 18 and
over, there were 89.6 males.
Income
The median income for a household in the city was
$27,523, and the median income for a family was $34,978. Males
had a median income of $30,816 versus $24,937 for females. The
per capita income for the city was $15,547. About 18.2% of
families and 23.0% of the population were below the poverty
line, including 32.0% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those
age 65 or over.
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