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Population (year 2000): 131,510 Males: 62,039 (47.2%), Females: 69,471
(52.8%)
Elevation: 42 feet
County: Chatham
Land area: 74.7 square miles
Zip codes: 31401..31412, 31414..31416, 31418..31422, 31498, 31499.
Median resident age: 32.3 years Median household income:
$29,038 (year 2000) Median house value: $78,500 (year 2000)
Races in Savannah:
- Black (57.1%)
- White Non-Hispanic (37.9%)
- Hispanic (2.2%)
- Two or more races (1.3%)
- Other race (0.9%)
- American Indian (0.6%)
Ancestries: Irish (5.9%), English (5.9%), German (5.2%), United
States (5.1%), Scottish (1.9%), Scottish (1.9%).
For population 25 years and over in Savannah city
- High school or higher: 76.1%
- Bachelor's degree or higher: 20.2%
- Graduate or professional degree: 6.7%
- Unemployed: 8.2%
- Mean travel time to work: 21.4 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Savannah city
- Never married: 35.6%
- Now married: 40.2%
- Separated: 3.5%
- Widowed: 8.8%
- Divorced: 11.9%
3.9% Foreign born (1.3% Asia, 1.3% Latin America, 0.8%
Europe).
Crime in Savannah (2001):
- 26 murders (19.8 per 100,000)
- 70 rapes (53.2 per 100,000)
- 840 robberies (638.7 per 100,000)
- 602 assaults (457.8 per 100,000)
- 2,080 burglaries (1581.6 per 100,000)
- 7,400 larceny counts (5626.9 per 100,000)
- 1,440 auto thefts (1095.0 per 100,000)
- City-data.com crime
index = 747.6 (higher means more crime, US average =
330.6)
Colleges/Universities in Savannah:
- SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (Full-time enrollment: 4,565;
Location: 342 BULL ST; Private, not-for-profit; Website: www.scad.edu; Offers
Master's degree)
- ARMSTRONG ATLANTIC STATE UNIVERSITY (FT enrollment: 3,945; Location:
11935 ABERCORN ST; Public; Website: www.armstrong.edu; Offers Master's degree)
- SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY (FT enrollment: 1,802; Location: STATE
COLLEGE BRANCH; Public; Website: www.savstate.edu/; Offers Master's degree)
- SAVANNAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE (FT enrollment: 1,424; Location: 5717
WHITE BLUFF RD; Public)
- SOUTH COLLEGE (FT enrollment: 381; Location: 709 MALL BLVD; Private,
for-profit; Website: www.southcollege.edu)
- BEN FARMER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Location: 6349 ABERCORN; Private,
for-profit)
- SAVANNAH BARBER STYLING INSTITUTE (Location: 1815 WATERS AVE;
Private, for-profit)
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