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$24,750
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America/Chicago
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Wickes, AR - History
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Welcome to the Wickes Home page. The Wickes Home page provides as much information as possible on Wickes. Knowing Wickes’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wickes’s Home page, you will also find Wickes’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Wickes has a population of 1133. 44.6% of Wickes’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.4 are female. 53.6% of Wickes is married and 64.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $40,556, and the average rent is $542. Household median income in Wickes is $24,750, and the individual median income is $21,156. Wickes’s Ethnic is the following: White(63.5%), Hispanic(56.2%), Other(25.9%), Multiple(6.9%), Native(3.3%), Black(0.4%).
As of the census of 2000, there were 675 people, 222 households, and 174 families residing in the town. The population density was 112.3/km2 (290.6/mi2). There were 256 housing units at an average density of 42.6/km2 (110.2/mi2). The racial makeup of the town was 73.78% White, 3.26% Native American, 19.70% from other races, and 3.26% from two or more races.
31.70% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 222 households, out of which 48.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.7% were married couples living together, 13.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.6% were non-families. 19.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average household size was 3.04 and the average family size was 3.48. In the town, the population was spread out, with 37.5% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 14.8% from 45 to 64, and 7.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.9 males.
For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the town was $20,515, and the median income for a family was $22,292. Males had a median income of $19,659 versus $17,045 for females. The per capita income for the town was $7,572. About 27.6% of families and 37.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 45.4% of those under age 18 and 10.6% of those age 65 or over.
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