Carrollton, Texas Carrollton, Texas Location in Dallas County and the state of Texas Location in Dallas County and the state of Texas Counties Denton, Dallas, Collin City Council Mayor Matthew Marchant (R) Carrollton is a town/city in Denton, Dallas, and Collin counties in Texas.
As of the 2010 census, its populace was 119,097, making it the twenty-third most crowded city in Texas. The English colony, a group of families in the northeastern region of settlement which crossed into Denton County, was home to large landowners including the Furneaux, Jackson, Morgan, and Rowe families.
It is most likely that Carrollton was titled for Carrollton, Illinois, the initial home of many of these settlers. Early on, Carrollton's livelihood was exclusively agricultural, but following the assembly of the Dallas-Wichita Railroad through Trinity Mills in 1878, the improve began to expanded in its industrialized significance.
Carrollton's significance was further strengthened when the barns was extended to Denton in 1880 by Jay Gould, who sold the line to the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad (the Katy) in 1881.
By 1885, Carrollton had flour mills, cotton gins, two churches, a school, and a populace of 150.
A gravel trade that began in Carrollton in 1912 transformed the city, by the late 1940s, to a "grain and gravel" town.
The town/city also supported a brick plant and a dairy industry, and National Metal Products established itself in the town/city in 1946. At this point, momentous suburban expansion began spilling out of north Dallas, and the town/city interval tremendously between 1970 and 1980, with a documented expansion of 193% to 40,595 inhabitants.
It is a suburb of Dallas and in 2006 was titled to America's "Top 100 Places to Live" by Relocate America. Also in 2006, it was chose as the 19th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. In 2008 it was titled by Money periodical the 15th best place to live among small cities. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Carrollton has a total region of 37.1 square miles (96.1 km2), of which 36.3 square miles (94.0 km2) is territory and 0.81 square miles (2.1 km2), or 2.19%, is water. Carrollton is positioned in portions of three counties: Dallas County, Denton County, and Collin County.
Carrollton, Texas As of the 2010 census, the total populace was 119,097, with 43,299 homeholds and 31,073 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
At the 2010 census, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $70,960 and the median income for a family was $68,672.
According to the city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (2016), the city's various funds had $100,262,393 in Revenues, $91,667,190 in expenditures, $24,802,004 in total assets, $5,006,429 in total liabilities, and $30,581,414 in cash and investments. The town/city of Carrollton is a voluntary member of the North Central Texas Council of Governments association, the purpose of which is to coordinate individual and collective small-town governments and facilitate county-wide solutions, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and enable joint decisions.
The town/city homes command posts for: The City of Carrollton has a City Council that consists of seven members and a Mayor, the current Mayor of Carrollton is Matthew Marchant. The City Council is responsible for establishing town/city policies, considering town/city resolutions and ordinances, appointing people to various town/city boards and commissions, adopting the city's Comprehensive Plan and annual budget, approving or rejecting zoning changes, and meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Most of Carrollton is a part of the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District.
Dallas Independent School District also serves a small portion of Carrollton in the south, along with the Lewisville Independent School District in the north.
CFBISD operates three high schools in Carrollton: Newman Smith High School, R.L.
Turner High School, and Creekview High School.
White High School in Dallas. Private schools in the region include The Saint Anthony School, Carrollton Christian Academy.
The Japanese School of Dallas, a supplementary Japanese school, conducts its classes at Ted Polk Middle School in Carrollton. The school has its chief offices in Farmers Branch. Responsive Education Solutions has two charter schools in Carrollton.
Carrollton Classic Academy, grades K-5, which holds classes at First Baptist Church, and Quest of Coppell, grades 6-8, which holds classes at The North Church.
Ron Simmons, investment advisor in Carrollton and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 2013 Burt Solomons, Denton County lawyer; Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 65 from 1995-2013 Corbin Van Arsdale, former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County, 2003-2008; reared in Carrollton; lawyer and lobbyist in Austin Deron Williams, point guard for the Dallas Mavericks, attended Arbor Creek Middle School a b c d e "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Carrollton city, Texas".
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