Murray City, Ohio
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Murray City is a village in Hocking County
Hocking County, Ohio
Hocking County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2010, the population was 29,380. Its county seat is Logan. Its name is from the Hocking River, the origins of which are disputed but is said to be a Delaware Indian word meaning "bottle river".-Geography:According to the...

, Ohio
Ohio
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, United States
United States
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. The population was 452 at the 2000 census.

Murray City was the birthplace of Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson
Clifford Carlson
Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the men's college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1922 to 1953...

, a college men's basketball
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 coach from the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
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 between 1922 and 1958.

Geography

Murray City is located at 39°30′38"N 82°9′57"W (39.510569, -82.165762), along the Snow Fork, a tributary of Monday Creek
Monday Creek
Monday Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River, 27 miles long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Hocking and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 116 square miles on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau...

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According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the village has a total area of 0.3 square mile (0.776996433 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census
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of 2000, there were 452 people, 190 households, and 132 families residing in the village. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,509.4 people per square mile (581.7/km²). There were 211 housing units at an average density of 704.6 per square mile (271.6/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 97.57% White, 0.44% Native American, and 1.99% from two or more races.

There were 190 households out of which 32.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.86.

In the village the population was spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.3 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $27,969, and the median income for a family was $32,188. Males had a median income of $30,333 versus $20,313 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the village was $12,730. About 19.5% of families and 19.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.3% of those under age 18 and 12.3% of those age 65 or over.

Public services

The residents of Murray City are served by the Nelsonville-York City School District and Nelsonville-York High School
Nelsonville-York High School
Nelsonville-York High School is a public high school in Nelsonville, Ohio, a southeastern Ohio city in northern Athens County. It is the only high school in the Nelsonville-York City School District. Nelsonville-York City Schools serve York Township, Athens County in northern Athens County,...

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