TYLER IS APPROXIMATELY
SQUARE MILES IN AREA
Tyler's Estimated Population
​...BUT IT GROWS TO APPROXIMATELY
PEOPLE DURING THE DAY
DEMOGRAPHICS
​AGE AND GENDER COMPOSITION (2010):
  • Median age: 33 years
  • 24.3% under 18 years old
  • 14.4% aged 65 or older
  • 47.2% male
  • 52.8% female

HOUSEHOLDS (2010):
  • Total households: 37,896
  • 16.5% increase since 2000
  • 61.7% are family households (persons related by blood or marriage)
  • 42.5% of all households are married-couple households
  • 17.4% of all households are married couples with their own children under 18 years old
  • 31.2% of all households are single-person households
  • 2.4% are other non-family households (unrelated or single persons living together
  • 15.2% of all households are headed by women
  • 19.1% of all households are single-parent households

RACIAL/ETHNIC COMPOSITION (2010):
  • 50.8% White, non-Hispanic
  • 24.8% African-American, non-Hispanic
  • 21.2% Hispanic/Latino, all races
  • 2.4% Other, non-Hispanic
  • Public school (Tyler I.S.D.) enrollment, 2010-2011:
    • 39.4% Hispanic
    • 31.4% African-American
    • 27.5% White

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME (2010):
  • 17% of the population 5 years or older and speaks Spanish at home
  • 1.6% speaks a language other than English or Spanish at home
  • 9.4% of the population 5 years and older speaks English less than “very well”

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT (2010):
  • 29% of the population has a bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 16.3% does not have a high-school diploma

INCOME (2010):
  • Median household income- $41,607 median family income- $54,547
  • 32.3% of households have incomes of less than $35,000
  • 17% of households have incomes of $100,000 or more
  • 15.2% of families have incomes below the poverty level
  • 17% of individuals have incomes below the poverty level
  • 30% of children under 18 live below the poverty level
  • 8.8% of elderly households live in poverty
Sources: Census 2000, Census 2010, Tyler Independent School District (T.I.S.D.), 2010 City Demographic Study
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SINCE THE ADOPTION OF TYLER 21 IN 2007, THE CITY HAS ADDED
ACRES (OR 5 SQUARE MILES) OF LAND THROUGH ANNEXATIONS

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

  • Tyler’s population grew at an average annual rate of 1.86% between 1980 and 2010.​
  • 2020 population estimates show that Tyler grew by 1.15% per year between 2010 and 2020.
  • Tyler’s percentage of total county population has declined since 1980 due to new subdivisions being built outside the city.
  • Tyler’s millennial population is higher than the state average.
  • Most Tyler households are family households.
  • Almost a third of all households are single person households.
  • Tyler’s Hispanic population grew by about 55% between 2000 and 2010, but the city still has a lower percentage of Hispanics than the state as a whole.
  • Tyler proportionately has more African-Americans in its population than the state as a whole.
  • Almost a third of Tyler children lived in poverty at the time of the 2010 census.

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