Friday, April 30, 2021

A different part of Florida

Belle Glade is in Palm Beach County. The citry was built in 1925 on Lake Okeechobee drained land. Wikipedia says the town was “destroyed three years later by a hurricane which killed thousands of people.”

From Wikipedia

“For a time during the early to mid 1980s, the city had the highest rate of AIDS infection per capita (37 cases in a population of roughly 19,000) in the United States. According to the FBI, in 2003, the city had the second highest violent crime rate in the country at 298 per 10,000 residents. In 2010, the Palm Beach County sheriff's office estimated that half of the young men in Belle Glade between the ages of 18 and 25 had felony convictions.”

Together with nearby Pahokee, Belle Grand has “sent at least 60 players to the National Football League.” Wikipedia’s list of “Notable People” contains 15 NFL players and no one from any other profession.

About 28.5 percent of families and 33 percent of the overall population lives below the poverty line. “As of 2000, Belle Glade had the tenth highest percentage of Haitian residents in the United States, at 11.50% of the populace. It also had the sixtieth highest percentage of Cuban residents nationally, at 5.98% of the population.” (Wikipedia.)

For every 100 women age 18 and over, Belle Grande has about 103 men.

Demographics: White alone, 36.3 percent; Black or African-American alone, 59.3 percent; Hispanic or Latino, 31.7 percent; White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, 8.3 percent.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/bellegladecityflorida/HSG010219

 

 

                  

 

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