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Tampa, FL - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Tampa  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Tampa Home page. The Tampa Home page provides as much information as possible on Tampa. Knowing Tampa’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Tampa’s Home page, you will also find Tampa’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Tampa has a population of 2771700. 49.3% of Tampa’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.7 are female. 38.5% of Tampa is married and 49.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $253,609, and the average rent is $1,178. Household median income in Tampa is $55,634, and the individual median income is $30,675. Tampa’s Ethnic is the following: White(61.6%), Hispanic(26.2%), Black(23.3%), Multiple(7.3%), Asian(4.5%), Other(2.9%), Native(0.2%), Pacific(0.1%).


Tampa (US: ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County. With a population of 384,959 according to the 2020 census, Tampa is the third-most populated city in Florida after Jacksonville and Miami and is the 52nd most populated city in the United States. Tampa functioned as a military center during the 19th century with the establishment of Fort Brooke.


The cigar industry was also brought to the city by Vincente Martinez Ybor, after whom Ybor City is named. Tampa was formally reincorporated as a city in 1887, following the Civil War. Today, Tampa's economy is driven by tourism, health care, finance, insurance, technology, construction, and the maritime industry.


The bay's port is the largest in the state, responsible for over $15 billion in economic impact.The city is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area which is a four-county area composed of roughly 3.1 million residents, making it the second-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the state and the fourth largest in the Southeastern United States, behind Washington D.C., Miami, and Atlanta.


The Greater Tampa Bay area has over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. As of 2018, Tampa's annual growth rate is 1.63%.


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