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313,532
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$80,234
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America/Los_Angeles
94531 94509
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Antioch, CA - History
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Welcome to the Antioch Home page. The Antioch Home page provides as much information as possible on Antioch. Knowing Antioch’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Antioch’s Home page, you will also find Antioch’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Antioch has a population of 313532. 47.7% of Antioch’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 43.5% of Antioch is married and 61.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $425,580, and the average rent is $1,911. Household median income in Antioch is $80,234, and the individual median income is $31,967. Antioch’s Ethnic is the following: White(39.7%), Hispanic(34.5%), Black(20.8%), Other(15.2%), Multiple(11.7%), Asian(11.6%), Pacific(0.6%), Native(0.5%).
In January 2001, the Antioch Press was established by publisher and former Antioch Mayor Pro Tem and Councilman Allen Payton; he sold it in 2005 to the Brentwood Press and Publishing Company. Between 2001 and 2008, Gateway Generating Station was constructed in northern Antioch; the 530MW combined-cycle natural gas-fired power station, owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric, began providing power to customers in January 2009.
In late 2009, Antioch received significant media attention following the news of kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard being discovered near the city limits, and became the focus of several news stories regarding its 1,000 registered sex offenders. The Los Angeles Times ran a story titled "Sex offenders move to Antioch area 'because they can'," The Independent ran a story titled "How Jessica's Law turned Antioch into a paedophile ghetto", and CNN's Anderson Cooper and Larry King both did similar stories for television; the latter with commentary by TV judge Judy Sheindlin.
However, the Contra Costa Times and affiliated newspapers contradicted their claim: "Disturbing, if true. Only it's not, according to a Bay Area News Group analysis of sex offender addresses and census data." The report concluded that the 94509 zip code ranked only 39th in the state with 1.5 sex offenders per 1,000, with Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Bethel Island and Vallejo ZIP codes ranked in the top ten.
Monte Rio ranked first with 4.5 per 1,000.The city was attempting in 2012 to annex an adjacent 678-acre area of unincorporated land, which includes a GenOn Energy 760-megawatt power plant, to include the plant within city limits. In October 2010, Allen Payton returned to the news business and established the Antioch Herald, first online, then in May 2011 he began publishing a monthly print edition.Increasingly tied to the greater economy of the San Francisco Bay Area, a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station opened in the city in May 2018.Mayor Lamar Thorpe announced on April 14, 2021, that the city would establish a Chinatown historic district in the downtown and acknowledge the city's racist past.
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