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


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

Cedar Rapids has a population of 188618. 49.4% of Cedar Rapids’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 46.3% of Cedar Rapids is married and 70.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $144,238, and the average rent is $791. Household median income in Cedar Rapids is $60,787, and the individual median income is $33,929. Cedar Rapids’s Ethnic is the following: White(83.1%), Black(8.1%), Multiple(4.5%), Hispanic(4.1%), Asian(3%), Other(0.9%), Native(0.2%), Pacific(0.2%).


Cedar Rapids () is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city. It is a part of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City region of Eastern Iowa, which includes Linn, Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Jones, Johnson, and Washington counties.As of the 2020 United States Census, the city population was 137,710.


The estimated population of the three-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the nearby cities of Marion and Hiawatha, was 255,452 in 2008. Cedar Rapids is an economic hub of the state, located at the core of the Interstate 380 corridor. The Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is also a part of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with the Iowa City MSA. A flourishing center for arts and culture in Eastern Iowa, the city is home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Paramount Theatre, Orchestra Iowa, Theatre Cedar Rapids, the African American Museum of Iowa, and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance.


In the 1990s and 2000s, several Cedar Rapidians became well-known actors, including Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood, Terry Farrell, and Ron Livingston. The city is the setting for the musical The Pajama Game and the comedy film Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids is nicknamed the "City of Five Seasons", for the so-called "fifth season", which is time to enjoy the other four.


The symbol of the five seasons is the Tree of Five Seasons sculpture in downtown along the north river bank. The name "Five Seasons" and representations of the sculpture appear throughout the city in many forms.


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