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


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

Bloomington has a population of 116615. 50.3% of Bloomington’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.7 are female. 24.1% of Bloomington is married and 35.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $217,965, and the average rent is $946. Household median income in Bloomington is $41,354, and the individual median income is $17,148. Bloomington’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.1%), Asian(9.9%), Black(4.4%), Hispanic(4.3%), Multiple(3.7%), Native(0.4%), Other(0.4%).


Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington is known as the "Gateway to Scenic Southern Indiana".


The city was established in 1818 by a group of settlers from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Virginia who were so impressed with "a haven of blooms" that they called it Bloomington.The population was 79,168 at the 2020 census.Bloomington is the home to Indiana University Bloomington, the flagship campus of the IU System.


Established in 1820, IU Bloomington has 45,328 students, as of September 2021, and is the original and largest campus of Indiana University. Most of the campus buildings are built of Indiana limestone. Bloomington has been designated a Tree City since 1984. The city was also the location of the Academy Award–winning 1979 movie Breaking Away, featuring a reenactment of Indiana University's annual Little 500 bicycle race.


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