Hutchins

Hutchins is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. Its population was 5,338 at the 2010 census. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Hutchins State Jail for men in Hutchins. The city has a total area of 9.3 square miles (24.1 km²), of which 0.23 sq miles (0.6 km²) is covered by water. It is bordered by Dallas on the north and northwest, Lancaster on the southwest, Wilmer to the south, and the Trinity River to the east. Until the end of the school district, C.S. Winn Elementary School was located in Hutchin's. The Hutchins Academic Elementary School also located in the city. The area is within the Board of Trustees District 5. As of fall 2011, the area is zoned to Wilmer-Hutchin Elementary School, Kennedy-Curry Middle School, and Wilmer. High School in Dallas, then under WHISD control, served Wilmer, and Hutchins High School. In November 2010, the DISD announced that Wilmer Elementary School will open in an new building as part of a bond campaign. The Dallas ISD announced in November 2010 that three schools (Wilmer ES, Kennedy ES, and Whitney ES) will be opening in the City of Dallas in 2011. The schools will be part of the Dallas City School District, part of which is the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) The school district was dissolved in spring 2006.

History

Hutchins was first inhabited by families around 1860 as a trading place for immigrants who settled along the west bank of the Trinity River. The town received its name from railroad developer William J. Hutchins, who was then president and general manager of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC) The population of Hutchins grew to around 250 residents in 1884 and topped 300 by 1890. In the first census conducted after incorporation in 1950, the population stood at 743. Despite the rapid growth of Dallas County and most of its suburban communities during the latter half of the 20th century, Hutchins has grown at a much slower pace and today is one of the smallest municipalities in the county. As of 2000, the city of Hutchinson had 133 businesses and a population of 2,805. Many of the businesses in the city are industrial or manufacturing related. A number of its residents are employed in the City of Dallas, which is located just a few miles to the north. The city of Hutchin's was officially incorporated in 1945. The first post office opened in the community in 1872. The population declined slightly to 204 in 1904, but had risen to 500 in 1926. The number of residents in Hutchins was 743 in the census conducted in 1950. In 2000 the city had 133 business and a total population of more than 2,800. It was one of Dallas' smallest municipalities and has 133 businesses as of 2000. It has a population in excess of 1,000 people.

Geography

Hutchins is located at 32°3838N 96°4227W (32.643784, 96.707538), about 9 miles (14 km) south of downtown Dallas. It is bordered by Dallas on the north and northwest, Lancaster on the southwest, Wilmer to the south, and the Trinity River to the east. Interstate Highways 20 and 45 pass through the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.3 square miles (24.1 km²), of which 0.23 square mile (0.6 km²) is covered by water. The city is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the cities of Dallas, Fort Worth, Lancaster, and Wilmer. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Hutchins has a population of 2,816. The population of Hutchins in 2010 was 2,788. It had a population growth rate of 0.7% in the year ending June 2010, and a population loss of 1.2% in 2010. The town is located on the Texas Interstate Highways 20 and 45, which connect Dallas and Fort Worth. The Trinity River runs through the center of the city, and it is also the source of the Trinity River, which flows into the Dallas City Lakes. Hutchins is a suburb of Dallas and is located near the Dallas suburb of Lancaster.

Demographics

As of the 2020 U.S. census, 5,607 people, 970 households, and 654 families were residing in the city. The city's population is expected to rise to 6,000 by the end of the decade. The population of the city was 5,600 as of the 2010 United States census, up from 5,500 in the 1990s and 5,000 in the 1950s. It has a population of 6,100. The town's population has grown from 4,100 in the 1970s to 5,609 as of 2010. It is expected that the population will reach 6,600 by the 2020 United States Census. The current population is 5,605. The U.N. estimates that the city will have 7,000 residents by the year 2050. The number of residents is expected rise to 7,500 by that time. The City's population will be 6,700 by the 2030 United States census and 7,200 by the 2050  Census  Population Estimates. It currently has 654 households, with 654 people living in it. It also has 970 businesses and 970 businesses, with 970 people in total. It was the site of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, which took place in World War I and II, and has since been replaced by the Battle of Gettysburg. It had a total population of 4,856 in the 1940s and 1950s, with 5,100 people in the 1960s and 1970s.

Government and infrastructure

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Hutchins State Jail for men in Hutchins. The Hutchins City Jail is located in the town's downtown area. Hutchins has a population of about 2,000 people. The city is home to the Texas State Prison for the Criminally Retired. The state jail is located on the city's downtown square. The jail is open to the public on a limited basis. It has a maximum security unit for the criminally Retired, with a maximum sentence of 10 years if convicted of a felony. It also has a general detention unit for men with a minimum sentence of five years. It was built in the 1970s. It is the first state jail in the state, and the first of its kind in Texas. It opened in 1986. It's located on a former cotton field. It dates back to the early 1900s, when the town was first established. The town has a history of being a center of crime and crime prevention in the area. The prison was established in the early 1950s, after the state legislature passed a bill to build a state prison. It became operational in the 1960s, and it's now the state's largest jail. It holds about 1,000 inmates. It operates on a budget of about $100,000 a year. It can be used to house up to 10,000 prisoners. The county's population is about 3,500 people, with the majority of the residents living in the city of Hutchins and surrounding areas.

Education

Hutchins is served by the Dallas Independent School District. The area is within the Board of Trustees District 5. Wilmer Hutchins Elementary School will open in an area of the City of Dallas in 2011. Dallas County residents are zoned to Dallas College (formerly Dallas County Community College or DCCC) The Atwell Public Library serves Hutchins. The Hutchins Academic Elementary School was also located in Hutchins, but closed in 2004. In 2004 the WHISD board voted to close Hutchins academic, which had 82 students at the time of closure. The former students moved to C.S. Winn and Wilmer Elementary School in Wilmer in January 2005. In November 2010 DISD announced that three schools would open/reopen in the Wilmer-Hutchin area in 2011, including Wilmer and Kennedy-Curry Middle Schools. The Wilmer school will be located in the former Wilmer High School building, which was demolished in 2008 as part of a 2008 bond campaign. The new Wilmer high school will also be in the old Wilmer middle school building, and will be in a new area of Dallas. In 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 they included J.P. Starks, Martin Weiss, and Whitney Young Elementary Schools. From 2007-2008 to 2010-2011, the elementary schools serving Hutchins only included Martin Weiss and Whitney young Elementary Schools (in two separate attendance zones) From 2005 to 2006, until 2010- 2011 secondary schools included Hulcy (Weiss zone) and Zumwalt Middle Schools (Starks and Young zones) and Carter High School (Stark and Young zone).

Miscellaneous

Union Pacific's Dallas Intermodal Terminal is located partly in the city of Hutchins and partly in Wilmer. The terminal is located in the Dallas suburb of Wilmer, Texas. Union Pacific also has a terminal in Austin, Texas, which is in the suburbs of Austin and San Antonio. The Terminal is part of Union Pacific's larger Dallas-Fort Worth division, which also includes the Houston-area hub of the Houston Port of Entry and the San Antonio Port of entry. The Dallas-Worth terminal is in Texas' Port of Houston area, in the suburb of San Antonio, and the city's Port of Dallas-Henderson, in Texas. The terminals are connected by a rail line that runs from Texas to South Texas and Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Texas-Mexico border, and to the U.S. state of Texas and the state of South Carolina. They are located in Hutchins, Wilmer and Dallas, and are part of the Dallas Metropolitan Statistical Area (DMA), which is also known as the Dallas-Wilmer-Hutchins Statistical Area. The DMA is the largest city in the DMA, with a population of more than 1.5 million people. It is also the largest U.P. intermodal terminal in the United States, with an annual capacity of over 1.6 million. The U.N. World Trade Center is in Dallas, which has a capacity of 1.7 million people, and is the second largest in the world, after New York.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Hutchins, Dallas County, Texas = 32.3. These Air Quality index is based on annual reports from the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The number of ozone alert days is used as an indicator of air quality, as are the amounts of seven pollutants including particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, and volatile organic chemicals. The Water Quality Index is 87. A measure of the quality of an area’s water supply as rated by the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality, using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. The Superfund Sites Index is 12. Higher is better (100=best). Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. The UV Index in Hutchins = 5.7 and is a measure of an area's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. This is most often a combination of sunny weather, altitude, and latitude. The UV Index has been defined by the WHO (www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-the-ultraviolet-(uv)-index) and is uniform worldwide.

Employed

The most recent city population of 4,641 individuals with a median age of 32.7 age the population grows by 8.77% in Hutchins, Dallas County, Texas population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 645.25 residents per square mile of area (249.14/km²). There are average 2.92 people per household in the 996 households with an average household income of $38,793 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 8.70% of the available work force and has dropped -1.43% over the most recent 12-month period and the projected change in job supply over the next decade based on migration patterns, economic growth, and other factors will increase by 28.44%. The number of physicians in Hutchins per 100,000 population = 225.3.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Hutchins = 37.9 inches and the annual snowfall = 1.2 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 67. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 236. 96 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 34 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 25, where higher values mean a more pleasant climate. The Comfort Index measure recognizes that humidity by itself isn't the problem. (Have you noticed nobody ever complains about the weather being 'cold and humid?) It's in the summertime that we notice the humidity the most, when it's hot and muggy. Our Comfort Index uses a combination of afternoon summer temperature and humidity to closely predict the effect that the humidity will have on people.

Median Home Cost

The percentage of housing units in Hutchins, Dallas County, Texas which are owned by the occupant = 66.03%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 28 years with median home cost = $82,370 and home appreciation of 1.48%. This is the value of the years most recent home sales data. Its important to note that this is not the average (or arithmetic mean). The median home price is the middle value when you arrange all the sales prices of homes from lowest to highest. This is a better indicator than the average, because the median is not changed as much by a few unusually high or low values. The property tax rate of $17.84 shown here is the rate per $1,000 of home value. If for simplification for example the tax rate is $14.00 and the home value is $250,000, the property tax would be $14.00 x ($250,000/1000), or $3500. This is the 'effective' tax rate.

Study

The local school district spends $4,378 per student. There are 15.7 students for each teacher in the school, 548 students for each Librarian and 416 students for each Counselor. 4.79% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 3.60% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 1.13% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).