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Los Angeles (US: (listen) lawss AN-jl-s; Spanish: Los Ángeles [los axeles], lit. 'The Angels'), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city after New York City. It covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km²) and is the seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million as of 2022. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under Spanish governor Felipe de Neve, on the village of Yaanga. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. In 2018, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had a gross metropolitan product of over $1.0 trillion, making it the city with the third-largest GDP in the world. It also has the busiest container port in the Americas. The local English pronunciation of the name of the city has varied over time.Since the 1930s, has been most common. This was also endorsed in 1952 by a "jury" appointed by Mayor Fletcher Bowron to devise an official pronunciation. The original settlement is disputed and is known as "Los Pladores" or "The Queen of the Angels" The original name is disputed; the original settlement of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Our Lady of the Queen of Angels is believed to have been founded in 1781.

Pronunciation of the name

Los Angeles is the primary city name, but also Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, View Park are acceptable city names or spellings, Crenshaw on the other hand no longer accepted or obsolete and are no longer used as a designation. Since the 1930s, has been most common. In 1934, the United States Board on Geographic Names decreed that this pronunciation be used. This was also endorsed in 1952 by a "jury" appointed by Mayor Fletcher Bowron to devise an official pronunciation. In 1908, librarian Charles Fletcher Lummis, who argued for the name's pronunciation with a hard g, reported that there were at least 12 pronunciation variants. In the early 1900s, the Los Angeles Times advocated for pronouncing it Loce AHNG-hayl-ais, approximating Spanish [los axeles], by printing the respelling under its masthead for several years. This did not find favor. Since the 1880s the pronunciation lohss ANG-gl-s emerged out of a trend in California to give places Spanish, or Spanish-sounding, names and pronunciations. The pronunciation lawss AN-jl-s was established following the 1850 incorporation of the city and was most common until the 1950s, when it was adopted by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. In 1952, a jury was appointed by the mayor to devise a pronunciation for the city's name. The jury's decision was made to use the pronunciation of lawss AN-l-s, which has been in use ever since. It is the most common pronunciation of the name of Los Angeles, followed by lawss A-s-L-S-E-S and lawss L-A-S.

History

Los Angeles was settled by the Tongva (Gabrieleño) and Chumash tribes. In 1781, a group of forty-four settlers known as "Los Pobladores" founded the pueblo (town) they called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, 'The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels' In 1846, during the wider Mexican-American war, marines from the Mexican militias fought the siege of Los Angeles where 150 Mexican militias which eventually surrendered. By 1900, the population had grown to more than 102,000, putting pressure on the city's water supply. By 1923, the discoveries had helped California become the country's largest oil producer, accounting for about one-quarter of the world's petroleum output. The present-day city has the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States. The original name of the settlement is disputed; the Guinness Book of World Records rendered it as "El Puebla de Nuestro Áñora de los Porciúncula"; other sources have shortened or alternate versions of the longer name. Los Angeles created the first municipal zoning ordinance in the U.S. On September 14, 1908, the Los Angeles City Council promulgated residential and industrial land use zones. In 1910, Hollywood merged into Los Angeles, and the city became a suburb of the larger city. In 1916, the city created a comprehensive comprehensive zoning ordinance.

Geography

Los Angeles is both flat and hilly. The highest point in the city proper is Mount Lukens at 5,074 ft (1,547 m) The city is subject to earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The strike-slip San Andreas Fault system, which sits at the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, passes through the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The last major earthquake was the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake. Parts of the city are vulnerable to tsunamis from waves from the Aleutian Islands in 1946, Valdivia earthquake in 1960, Alaska earthquake in 1964, Chile earthquake in 2010 and Japan earthquake in 2011. The official tree of Los Angeles is the Coral Tree (Erythrina caffra) and the official flower is the Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae). Mexican Fan Palms, Canary Island Palms and Queen Palms are common in the area, although only the last is native to California, though still not native to the City of LA. The city's street patterns generally follow a uniform grid plan, with uniform block lengths and occasional cut blocks for each block. However, this is complicated by rugged terrain, which has necessitated having different grids for each neighborhood. These neighborhoods are well-defined enough that the city has nearly all signage which marks nearly all of them nearly every street. The Los Angeles River, which is largely seasonal, is the primary drainage channel. It was straightened and lined in 51 miles (82 km) of concrete by the Army Corps of Engineers to act as a flood control channel.

Demographics

The 2010 U.S. census reported Los Angeles had a population of 3,792,621. Non-Hispanic Whites were 28.7% of the population in 2010, compared to 86.3% in 1940. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1,838,822 persons (48.5%). Los Angeles is home to people from more than 140 countries speaking 224 different identified languages. Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Tehrangeles, Little Tokyo, Little Bangladesh, and Thai Town provide examples of the polyglot character of Los Angeles. The largest Asian ethnic groups are Filipinos (3.2%) and Koreans (2.9%), which have their own established ethnic enclaves. Chinese people, which make up 1.8% of LA's population, reside mostly outside of the city limits and rather in the San Gabriel Valley of eastern Los Angeles County, but make a sizable presence in the city, notably in Chinatown. African Americans have been the predominant ethnic group in South Los Angeles, which has emerged as the largest African American community in the western United States since the 1960s. The city is also home to Armenians, Assyrians, Iranians and Iranians, many of whom live in enclaves in the Central Los Angeles region. The highest concentration of African Americans include Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Park, Leimert Park, Manchester Square, Manchester Park, and Watts.

Economy

The economy of Los Angeles is driven by international trade, entertainment (television, motion pictures, video games, music recording, and production), aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism. In the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index, Los Angeles was ranked as having the 19th most competitive financial center in the world. One of the five major film studios, Paramount Pictures, is within the city limits, its location being part of the so-called "Thirty-Mile Zone" of entertainment headquarters in Southern California. Los Angeles has been classified an "alpha world city" according to a 2012 study by a group at Loughborough University. The Department of Cannabis Regulation enforces cannabis legislation after the legalization of the sale and distribution of cannabis in 2016. As of October 2019, more than 300 existing cannabis businesses (both retailers and their suppliers) have been granted approval to operate in what is considered the nation's largest market. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a gross metropolitan product of over $1.0 trillion (as of 2018), making it the third-largest economic metropolitan area in the World after Tokyo and New York. Los LA is home to three Fortune 500 companies: AECOM, CBRE Group, and Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. Other companies headquartered in Los Angeles and the surrounding metropolitan area include The Aerospace Corporation, California Pizza Kitchen, Capital Group Companies, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Dine Brands Global, DreamWorks Animation, Dollar Shave Club, Fandango Media, and Trader Joe's.

Arts and culture

There are 841 museums and art galleries in Los Angeles County, more museums per capita than any other city in the U.S. The city's food culture is a fusion of global cuisine brought on by the city's rich immigrant history and population. As of 2022, the Michelin Guide recognized 10 restaurants granting 2 restaurants two stars and eight restaurants one star. Los Angeles is the site of the USC School of Cinematic Arts which is the oldest film school in the United States. The Los Angeles Music Center is "one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation", with more than 1.3 million visitors per year. The Hollywood Sign, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Capitol Records Building, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and the Griffith Observatory are important landmarks in the city. The L.A. Public Library system operates 72 public libraries in the City. The Venice Canal Historic District and boardwalk, Theme Building, Bradbury Building, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles City Hall, Hollywood Bowl, battleship USS Iowa, Watts Towers, Staples Center, Dodger Stadium, and Olvera Street are also important landmarks. The Santa Monica Beach Boardwalk is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. The Griffith Observatory is the world's largest observatory, with a collection of more than 2,000 historic buildings. The Getty Center is the largest art museum in the Western United States, and is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the world’s wealthiest art institution.

Sports

The city of Los Angeles and its metropolitan area are the home of eleven top-level professional sports teams. Los Angeles is the second-largest city in the United States but hosted no NFL team between 1995 and 2015. The city has twice hosted the Summer Olympic Games: in 1932 and in 1984, and will host the games for a third time in 2028. The Forum, SoFi Stadium, Dignity Health Sports Park, the Rose Bowl, Angel Stadium, and the Honda Center are also in adjacent cities and cities in Los Angeles's metropolitan area. The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are Division I teams in the Pac-12 Conference, but will soon be moved to the Big Ten Conference. The Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Los Angeles Galaxy and Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) are among the other teams based in the city. Los Los Angeles will be one of eleven US host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with matches set to be held at So Fi Stadium. The Rose Bowl also hosts an annual and highly prestigious NCAA college football game called the Rosebowl, which happens every New Year's Day. Los LA is one of six North American cities to have won championships in all five of its major leagues (MLB, NFL, NHL, MLS, and MLS), completing the feat with the Kings' 2012 Stanley Cup title. The LA Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, and LA Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) are also among the teams that play in neighboring communities but use the city's name.

Government

Los Angeles is a charter city as opposed to a general law city. The current charter was adopted on June 8, 1999, and has been amended many times. The elected government consists of the Los Angeles City Council and the mayor of Los Angeles, which operate under a mayorcouncil government. There are 15 city council districts. In the California State Assembly, Los Angeles is split between fourteen districts, and in the United States House of Representatives, it is split among ten congressional districts. The city has many departments and appointed officers, including the LAPD, the Board of Police Commissioners, and the Housing Authority of the City of L.A. (HACLA) The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) also has a branch of the city library, the LAPL, which is located in downtown Los Angeles. The mayor is Karen Bass, and there are about 90 neighborhood councils. The neighborhood councils are relatively autonomous and spontaneous in that they identify their own boundaries, establish their own bylaws, and elect their own officers. Residents elect supervisors for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th supervisorial districts, as well as the city attorney, a county office, and controller. There is a city council district for the city's first district, and a city district for its second district, for the third and fourth districts, for a total of 15 city districts for Los Angeles to represent. The U.S. State Assembly has 14 districts, while the state Senate has eight districts.

Education

There are three public universities within the city limits: California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), California State. University, Northridge (CSUN) and University of California, LA (UCLA) The community college system consists of nine campuses governed by the trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District. The Claremont Colleges consortium includes the most selective liberal arts colleges in the U.S. and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), one of the top STEM-focused research institutions in the world. Los Angeles Unified School District serves almost all of the city of Los Angeles, as well as several surrounding communities, with a student population around 800,000. LAUSD has become known for its underfunded, overcrowded and poorly maintained campuses, although its 162 Magnet schools help compete with local private schools. The Los Angeles County Office of Education operates the LA County High School for the Arts. There are numerous additional colleges and universities outside the Greater Los Angeles area, including the Claremont colleges consortium, which includes the top liberal arts college in the United States, and the Caltech consortium, among other institutions. The city has a population of around 1.2 million people, and has a per-capita income of $50,000 to $100,000 per year. The average household income in Los Angeles is around $60,000, and a per capita income is about $70,000 or $80,000 in some parts of the greater Los Angeles region. The median household income is $62,000; the average household wealth is $74,500.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California = 1. 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 52. 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 10. 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 Los Angeles = 6.2 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 3,898,747 individuals with a median age of 34.7 age the population grows by 6.85% in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 8,304.22 residents per square mile of area (3,206.29/km²). There are average 2.87 people per household in the 1,343,425 households with an average household income of $46,393 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 13.90% of the available work force and has dropped -6.24% 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 13.62%. The number of physicians in Los Angeles per 100,000 population = 213.2.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Los Angeles = 18.1 inches and the annual snowfall = 0 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 26. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 284. 77 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 49.8 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 46, 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 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California which are owned by the occupant = 36.46%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 46 years with median home cost = $400,360 and home appreciation of -14.02%. 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 $7.73 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 $5,843 per student. There are 21.6 students for each teacher in the school, 4412 students for each Librarian and 733 students for each Counselor. 5.27% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 16.03% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 8.77% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).

Wilmington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. The area now known as Wilmington was settled by the Lenape (or Delaware Indian) band led by Sachem (Chief) Mattahorn just before Henry Hudson sailed up the Len-api Hanna in 1609. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area, which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Camden, and other urban areas. It had a 2020 population of 6,228,601, representing the seventh largest metropolitan region in the nation. The modern city also encompasses other Swedish settlements, such as Timmerön / Timber Island, Sidoland (South Wellington), Strandviken and Översidolandet (along the Christina river, near Woodcrest and Ashley Heights). Dr. Timothy Stidham (Swedish:Timen Lulofsson Stiddem) was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington. He was born in 1610, probably in Hammel, Denmark, and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is recorded as the first physician in Delaware.

History

Wilmington is the primary city name, but also Bellefonte, Edgemoor are acceptable city names or spellings. The official name is City of Wilmington. Wilmington is built on the site of Fort Christina and the settlement Kristinehamn, the first Swedish settlement in North America. The area now known as Wilmington was settled by the Lenape (or Delaware Indian) band led by Sachem (Chief) Mattahorn just before Henry Hudson sailed up the Len-api Hanna in 1609. The Dutch heard and spelled the river and the place as Minguannan. Dr. Timothy Stidham (Swedish:Timen Lulofsson Stiddem) was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington. In 1800, Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, a French Huguenot, emigrated to the United States. The DuPont company became a major supplier to the U.S. military. Located on the banks of the Brandywine River, the village was eventually annexed by the city during the Civil War, though officially remaining a border state of the Union and divided in its support of both the Confederate Union and the Union state of Delaware. The city enjoyed the prosperity during the war, and merchants and manufacturers expanded westward in the form of large homes along the tree-lined streets. This spurred the development of large residential streets along the west side of the city. It was rated the first in the country in the production of gunpowder and second in leather and second carriages in 1868, and it rated first in gunpowder production in 1879, 1881, 1882, and 1883.

Geography

The city sits at the confluence of the Christina and Delaware rivers, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Philadelphia. Wilmington is served by I-95 and I-495 within city limits. The twin-span Delaware Memorial Bridge, a few miles south of the city, provides direct highway access between Delaware and New Jersey. The city has a warm temperate climate or humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with hot and humid summers, cool to cold winters, and precipitation evenly spread throughout the year. Snowfall is light to moderate, and variable, with some winters bringing very little of it and others witnessing several major snowstorms. The average seasonal total is 20.2 inches (51 cm). Extremes in temperature have ranged from 15 °F (26 °C) on February 9, 1934, up to 107 °F [42 °C] on August 7, 1918, though both 100 °F and 0 °C are uncommon; the last occurrence of each was July 18, 2012 and February 5, 1996, respectively. Wilmington Train Station is one of the southernmost stops on Philadelphia's SEPTA rail transportation system, is also served by Northeast Corridor Amtrak passenger trains. It is located along the Fall Line geological transition from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Delaware River here is an estuary at sea level (with twice-daily high and low tides), providing sea-level access for ocean-going ships.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 70,851 people, 28,615 households, and 15,398 families residing in the city. There were 32,820 housing units at an average density of 3,009.9 per square mile (1,162.1/km²) Non-Hispanic Whites were 27.9% of the population in 2010, compared to 40.5% in 1990. The largest ethnicities included: Irish (8.7%), Italian (5.7%) and Polish (3.6%). The median income for a household in theCity was $32,884. The per capita income for the city was $24,861. 45.7% of those under the age of 18 and 16.5%. of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city had a population of 70.898 people, 31,754 households and 13,572 families. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 3.18. The median age was 34.3 years. For every 100 females, there are 90.5 males. The city has a population density of 6,497.6 per squaremile (2,508.8/ km²) The city's population is 58.0% African American, 32.6% White, 0.4% Native American, 1.0%. Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 5.4%. from other races, and 2.6%.

Government

The Wilmington City Council consists of thirteen members. The council consists of eight members who are elected from geographic districts, four elected at-large and the City Council President. The Mayor of Wilmington is also elected by the entire city. The Delaware Department of Correction Howard R. Young Correctional Institution, renamed from Multi-Purpose Criminal Justice Facility in 2004, is located in Wilmington. The prison is often referred to as the "Gander Hill Prison" after the neighborhood it is Located in. Many Wilmington City workers belong to one of several Locals of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. The current city council members are listed in the table below. The mayor is Mike Purzycki (D), who has been in office since 2007. The city is home to the Delaware State Prison, which opened in 1982 and houses both pretrial and posttrial male prisoners. The state prison is also known as the Gander Hill prison, after the area where it is located. It is located on the Delaware River, near the town of Gander, and is known as one of the most secure prisons in the state. It has a maximum security unit with a maximum of 50 inmates per night and a minimum security unit of 20. It was the first prison in Delaware to be built in the 1970s and is currently the second largest prison in the United States, with a capacity of more than 1,000 inmates. It also houses the state's largest prison, the State Correctional Institution for Women, which has a total capacity of 1,200 inmates.

Neighborhoods

The city of Wilmington is made up of the following neighborhoods: Baynard Village, Brandywine Hills, Eastlawn, Eastlake, Gander Hill, Center City, Riverfront, Quaker Hill, Canby Park and Trinity Vicinity. The city is home to two Catholic schools, two private schools, and the Holy Orthodox Church & Holy Whistler Orthodox Church, which hosts an annual cultural festival. The predominantly minority community of Woodlawn is in the process of gaining authorization for a $100 million revitalization to be performed in seven phases over 12 years. Wilmington is also home to the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution, which is a federal prison for men and women who have committed violent crimes. The City of Wilmington was founded in 1788 and is now home to more than 100,000 people. The population of the city has grown from 1.2 million in the early 1900s to 1.4 million in 2010. The number of people living in the city is expected to reach 1.6 million by the end of the year, according to the city's 2010 population estimate. It is expected that the city will reach 2.1 million people by the year 2020, up from 2.3 million in 2000. The total population of Wilmington in 2010 was 1.7 million, up 0.7 percent from the previous year. The majority of people live in the Ninth Ward, which was created as a result of population shifts in the 1960s and remains a stable, working-class neighborhood.

Public safety

Wilmington was consistently ranked among the most dangerous cities in the United States. In 2014, Wilmington recorded 28 homicides, making for a rate of 39.5 per 100,000 residents. By August 2017, Wilmington had already eclipsed the homicide total of 2016 despite only being 2/3 through the year. According to the WPD's 2018 Compstat report, shooting incidents have decreased to a level not seen in Wilmington in more than 15 years. In 2002, the Wilmington Police Department started a program known to some in the neighborhoods as jump-outs in which unmarked police vans would patrol crime-prone neighborhoods late at night, suddenly converge at street corners where people were loitering and detain them temporarily. The program was thought to improve the police's database of fingerprints and eye-witnesses for use in future crime investigations. The entire downtown business district was placed under video monitoring in 2002. The city claims this has helped prevent and reduce crime. The Wilmington Fire Department (WFD) is led by Chief John Looney and maintains five engine companies, two ladder companies, a rescue squad company, and a marine company (fireboat) fire fighting fleet. Emergency medical services are provided through contract with the city's St. Francis Hospital, whose EMS division operates a minimum five BLS transport units at all times of the day. Advanced Life Support services in the City of Wilmington are provided by New Castle County's EMS Division with two city-based medic units. All Wilmington firefighters since 2002 are trained to the EMT-B level and serve as first responders for life-threatening emergencies.

Economy

Wilmington is home to one Fortune 500 company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The city is the corporate domicile of more than 50% of the publicly traded companies in the United States. Science and Technology are also thriving as companies such as Incyte, Chemours, Corteva, Solenis and ZipCode call Wilmington home. In terms of growth, as of 2018 the city is seeing nearly $450M worth of private investments, multi-million dollars of city infrastructure improvements, and significant improvements to their transportation infrastructure. According to Wilmington's 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: M&T Bank, American Life Insurance Company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Delaware, and ING Groep N.V. The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware is located in Wilmington, and is one of the busiest of the 94 federal bankruptcy courts located around the U.S. The Court of Chancery, as a statewide court, may hear cases in any of the state's three counties. It has hosted high-profile complex corporate trials such as the Disney shareholder litigation. In 1988, the Delaware legislature enacted a law which required a would-be acquirer to capture 85 percent of a Delaware chartered corporation's stock in a single transaction or wait three years before proceeding. This law strengthened Delaware's position as a safe haven for corporate charters during an especially turbulent time filled with hostile takeovers.

Arts and culture

Wilmington has many museums, galleries, and gardens (see Points of Interest below), as well as many ethnic festivals and other events throughout the year. Notable among its museums is the Delaware Art Museum whose collection focuses on American art and illustration from the 19th to the 21st century. The city's memorial day parade is the oldest continuous parade in the country and is held every year on the last weekend of July. The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a week-long outdoor music festival held each summer in Wilmington's Rodney Square. The Peoples' Festival is an annual tribute to Bob Marley, who once lived in Wilmington trying to earn money enough to establish his Tuff Gong music studio in Kingston, Jamaica. The Nutcracker performed by the Wilmington Ballet at the Playhouse at the Hotel DuPont is one of the city's most famous events. The Riverfront Blues Festival is held each August in the Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park, featuring prominent blues acts as well and artists from the local area. It is also home to the annual Big August Quarterly, which since 1814 has celebrated African American religious freedom. It also celebrates Hispanic Week, which coincides with National Hispanic Month festivities, September 15 October 15. The festival culminates with a pageant and desfile (parade) along 4th Street. It features Latin music acts, Latin cuisine and a carnival on the Riverfront on the final weekend of the festival. The event features traditional Greek (Hellenic) crafts, food, drink, and music.

Wilmington Riverfront

In the 1990s, the city launched a campaign to revitalize the former shipyard area known as the Wilmington Riverfront. Delaware Theatre Company was at the forefront of this movement, opening its current space on Water Street in 1985. The efforts were bolstered early by The Big Kahuna also known as Kahunaville (a restaurant, bar and arcade which has also since closed and been rebuilt in 2010 as the Delaware Children's Museum) Daniel S. Frawley Stadium, the Wilmington Blue Rocks minor league baseball stadium. The Chase Center on the Riverfront opened as the First USA Riverfront Arts Center in 1998 to hold traveling exhibitions, but was repurposed into the city's convention center in 2005. On June 7, 2006, the groundbreaking of Justison Landing signaled the beginning of Wilmington's largest residential project since Bancroft Park was built after World War II. Outlets shops, restaurants and a Riverfront Market have also opened along the 1.2-mile (1.9 km) Riverwalk. Recent high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Christina River have been cited as evidence of the River Front's continued revival. The Wilmington Rowing Center boathouse is located along the Christin River on the river. The city's largest public park, Bancriff Park, was built in the 1950s and 1960s. It is located in the heart of the city and was the site of the Wilmington Red Sox's first World Series game in 1961. The Red Sox won the game 3-1.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware = 9.8. 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 12. 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 10. 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 Wilmington = 4.1 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 70,898 individuals with a median age of 36.5 age the population grows by 0.73% in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 6,510.38 residents per square mile of area (2,512.48/km²). There are average 2.37 people per household in the 29,040 households with an average household income of $38,517 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 13.30% of the available work force and has dropped -7.97% 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 10.76%. The number of physicians in Wilmington per 100,000 population = 245.7.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Wilmington = 46.5 inches and the annual snowfall = 17.8 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 111. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 199. 85 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 24.1 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 45, 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 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware which are owned by the occupant = 44.05%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 61 years with median home cost = $145,130 and home appreciation of -1.75%. 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 $7.21 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 $8,213 per student. There are 15.9 students for each teacher in the school, 833 students for each Librarian and 549 students for each Counselor. 4.21% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 12.97% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 8.48% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).