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Colonial Heights |
Population (year
2000): 7,067
Males: 3,425
(48.5%),
Females: 3,642
(51.5%)
Elevation: 420
feet
County:
Sullivan
Land area: 6.5
square miles
Zip code:
37663
Median resident
age: 40.8 years
Median household
income: $48,145
(year 2000)
Median house
value: $112,200
(year 2000)
Ancestries:
United States
(16.0%), English
(15.9%), German
(13.4%), Irish
(13.4%),
Scotch-Irish
(4.5%), Scottish
(3.5%).
For population
25 years and
over in Colonial
Heights
-
High school
or higher:
90.4%
-
Bachelor's
degree or
higher:
32.9%
-
Graduate or
professional
degree: 9.1%
-
Unemployed:
2.4%
-
Mean travel
time to
work: 21.6
minutes
For population
15 years and
over in Colonial
Heights CDP
-
Never
married:
15.4%
-
Now married:
70.8%
-
Separated:
0.9%
-
Widowed:
5.2%
-
Divorced:
7.7%
0.9% Foreign
born
Industries
providing
employment:
Educational, health
and social
services
(24.0%),
Manufacturing
(20.2%), Retail
trade (14.1%).
Hospitals/medical
centers
near
Colonial
Heights:
- HOLSTON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER (about 5 miles; KINGSPORT, TN)
- HEALTHSOUTH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL (about 6 miles; KINGSPORT, TN)
- INDIAN PATH MEDICAL CENTER (about 6 miles; KINGSPORT, TN)
Colleges/universities
with
over
2000
students
nearest
to
Colonial
Heights:
- NORTHEAST STATE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 10 miles; BLOUNTVILLE, TN; Full-time enrollment: 2,729)
- EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY (about 16 miles; JOHNSON CITY, TN; FT enrollment: 9,498)
- WALTERS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 57 miles; MORRISTOWN, TN; FT enrollment: 3,893)
- APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY (about 58 miles; BOONE, NC; FT enrollment: 12,245)
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE (about 58 miles; ASHEVILLE, NC; FT enrollment: 2,759)
- ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 61 miles; ASHEVILLE, NC; FT enrollment: 2,728)
- SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 65 miles; RICHLANDS, VA; FT enrollment: 2,412)
Colonial
Heights
compared
to
Tennessee
state
average:
- Median house value below state average.
- Unemployed percentage below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Renting percentage significantly below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in above state average.
- Number of rooms per house above state average.
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