Did you know that Collin County is the fastest growing county in Texas?
Collin County is also one of the top growth counties in the United States
Let’s bring you up to speed on Collin County
McKinney is the county seat, and Collin County is 848 square miles of land and 38 square miles of water.
The population in 2010 was 782,341.
By 2018, Collin County had grown to more than one million people. According to the county, 80 move in every day. The average taxable home value is $344,382.
There are more females than males in Collin County at 51 percent female, 49 percent male.
The median age is 36.5 years.
Ten percent are 65.
Twenty-eight percent are under age 18.
The average family size is 3.3.
The median family income is $105,954.
Registered voters amounted to 590,266 but voter turnout in November 2019 was 11 percent.
Between 2010 and 2019, more than 202,000 jobs were added in Collin County.
Education services, healthcare and social assistance industries employed almost 20 percent in Collin County.
Professional, scientific, and administrative and waste management services industries made up 16.4 percent.
Of your employed neighbors, 84 percent were private wage and salary workers
Ten percent are government workers
and 5.8 percent self-employed.
The average commute time is about 29 minutes.
In Collin County, 51 percent of those 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher, far outpacing the state and national figure that hover between 26 and 28 percent.
Since you asked, the annual per capita income ($41,609) of your neighbors is more than 25 percent higher than the national rate;
The median family income in 2017 ($105,954) is about 33 percent higher than the U.S. median income.
The county median household income was estimated at $90,124 by 2017.
Less than one percent of county households were estimated to have received public cash assistance in 2017
An estimated 6.9 percent of individuals here were living below the Federal Poverty Level in 2017.
Collin County had a 94-percent occupancy rate for the 320,000-plus housing units.
Two-thirds of occupied housing are owner-occupied, with 32 percent rented out.
Traditional married-couple families make up 60 percent of total households.
The median monthly housing cost for an owner with a mortgage is $1,884 ($725 for owners without a mortgage) and $1,119 a month for the median rent.
Two thirds of these homes – about 117,000 – were built in 2000 or later.
Student in local schools total more than 260,500 who are ages 3 and up.
Schools estimate there are 32,000 in preschool or kindergarten.
About 173,000 are in first through 12 grade.
College and grad school students number 54,000.
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Source: U.S. Census U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
and CollinCountyTX.gov
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC), constructed through Allen in 1872, laid out the original township of Allen. The H&TC was acquired by J.P. Morgan & Company in 1877 and by the Southern Pacific in 1883. The H&TC erected a combination freight/passenger depot in 1918 at the Allen Central Business District.
