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Harrisonburg, VA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Harrisonburg a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Harrisonburg Home page. The Harrisonburg Home page provides as much information as possible on Harrisonburg. Knowing Harrisonburg’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Harrisonburg’s Home page, you will also find Harrisonburg’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Harrisonburg has a population of 74901. 48.6% of Harrisonburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.4 are female. 29.4% of Harrisonburg is married and 40.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $220,266, and the average rent is $911. Household median income in Harrisonburg is $49,117, and the individual median income is $19,251. Harrisonburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.2%), Hispanic(20%), Multiple(8.4%), Black(7.8%), Asian(3.5%), Other(3.1%), Native(0.1%).
Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is also the county seat of the surrounding Rockingham County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. At the 2020 census, the population was 51,814. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Harrisonburg with Rockingham County for statistical purposes into the Harrisonburg, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 126,562 in 2011.Harrisonburg is home to James Madison University (JMU), a public research university with an enrollment of over 20,000 students, and Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), a private, Mennonite-affiliated liberal arts university.
Although the city has no historical association with President James Madison, JMU was nonetheless named in his honor as Madison College in 1938 and renamed as James Madison University in 1977. EMU largely owes its existence to the sizable Mennonite population in the Shenandoah Valley, to which many Pennsylvania Dutch settlers arrived beginning in the mid-18th century in search of rich, unsettled farmland.The city has become a bastion of ethnic and linguistic diversity in recent years.
Over 1,900 refugees have been settled in Harrisonburg since 2002. As of 2014, Hispanics or Latinos of any race make up 19% of the city's population. Harrisonburg City Public Schools (HCPS) students speak 55 languages in addition to English, with Spanish, Arabic, and Kurdish being the most common languages spoken.
Over one-third of HCPS students are English as a second language (ESL) learners. Language learning software company Rosetta Stone was founded in Harrisonburg in 1992, and the multilingual "Welcome Your Neighbors" yard sign originated in Harrisonburg in 2016.
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