ZIP Code 75701

Tyler is the largest city and county seat of Smith County in the U.S. state of Texas. It is home to the largest rose garden in the United States, a 14-acre public garden complex that has over 38,000 rose bushes of at least 500 different varieties. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the 33rd most populous city in Texas and 299th in theUnited States. Tyler is known as the "Rose Capital of America" (also the 'Rose City' and 'The Rose Capital of the World' for its long history of rose production, cultivation, and processing. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement began in Tyler. Tyler's early economy from 1847-1873 was based on agriculture, while complementary manufacturing included metalworking, milling wood, and leather tanning. The local agricultural economy relied on slave labor before the Civil War. In 1860, Tyler held over 1,000 enslaved persons, which represented 35 percent of the town's population. There was strong support for secession and the Confederacy within Tyler, as a high percentage of its residents voted for secession. In 1895, an African American suspect named Robert Henry Hillard was burned at the stake in the Smith County Courthouse for the alleged murder of a 19-year-old white woman named Denied a trial and process due to a miscarriage of justice. In 1900, the county inventory of peach trees surpassed one million by the county's principal fruit crop.

History

Tyler is the primary city name, but also Lindale are acceptable city names or spellings. The official name is City of Tyler. Tyler was named for President John Tyler, who advocated for the annexation of Texas by the United States. The first plat designated a 28-block town site centered by a main square within a 100-acre (40 ha; 0.16 sq mi) tract acquired by Smith County on 6 February 1847. Early religious and social institutions included the First Baptist church and a Methodist church, a Masonic lodge and an Odd Fellows lodge, and Tyler's first newspaper. By 1980, the population grew to 70,508 and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler and East Texas Islamic Society were established in the following years. During the 2010 East Texas church burnings, two Tyler churches were destroyed, and historic preservation city planning began in 2016 as the population increased and the city continued development. The town was secure enough for the Confederate States of America to establish the largest ordinance plant in Texas. In 1912, Dan Davis, an African-American man suspected of attacking a sixteen-year-old white girl named Carrie Johnson, was burned at the stake in the Smith County Courthouse Square. One of the original sets sits in the U.S. Library of Congress. By 1900, the county fruit tree inventory surpassed one million by 1900. Eighty percent of the county's agricultural revenue derived from cotton as it persisted as the dominant crop in the first decades of the twentieth century. Peaches were the principal fruit crop, but disease struck the peach trees, and local farmers moved toward growing roses by the 1920s. Twenty years later, most of the US rose supply originated in the Tyler area.

Geography

Tyler is located at 32°2103N 95°1802W and is 544 ft (166 m) above sea level. It is the county seat of Smith County, and is surrounded by many suburban communities, including Whitehouse, Lindale, New Chapel Hill, Bullard, Edom, Brownsboro, and Chandler. Summer months are hot and humid, with maximum temperatures exceeding 90 °F (32 °C) an average of 91 days per year. The city has an area of 57.97 sq mi (150.1 km²), of which 57.45sq mi (148.8 km²) is land and 0.52sq mi is covered by water. Tyler is the principal city of the Greater Tyler metropolitan area, and a principal city in the Tyler-Longview metropolitan and combined statistical areas. The record high for Tyler is 115°F (46 °C), which occurred in 2011, and the record low is 3 °C, which occurred on 18 January 1930 and again on 16 February 2021. Tyler experiences weather typical of the East Texas, which is unpredictable. All of East Texas has the humid subtropical climate Typical of the American South. Tyler has a modest skyline and downtown area. Its downtown has a unique rustic architecture, mainly in Art Deco and neoclassical styles. Many architectural structures in central Tyler date from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernist and postmodernist era structures are also present throughout the cityscape.

Demographics

With a population of 2,423 at the 1880 United States census, the city of Tyler grew to become the most populous city in Northeast Texas, and 33rd most populous in Texas as of 2020. At the 2020 U.S. census, there were 105,995 people, 37,114 households, and 23,081 families residing in the city. Since the 2020 census, Black and African Americans, Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and people of some other racial or ethnic identity increased to form a total of 55,210 residents against the city's 50,785 non-Hispanic whites. At least 24,023 Tylerites were Hispanic or Latino American of any race. As part of the Bible Belt, Protestant Christianity is the largest religious group, followed by Roman Catholic Christianity. According to the study, 31.1% of Tylerite Christians identified as Baptist, primarily affiliated with the Texas Baptists. The Roman Catholic community of Tyler and its metropolitan area have been primarily served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler. The Anglican community is divided between the Episcopal Church in North America and the Anglican Church USA-affiliated Episcopal Diocese. The Lutheran community also has congregations in Tyler and the TylerLongview area. This diocese is also a member of the AC-America-NA Synod of Mid-America. The largest Pentecostal bodies within the area are the Assemblies of God USA and the United PentecOSTal Church, prominent Trinitarian and Oneness Pentecoster denominations.

Economy

Tyler is the headquarters for Brookshire Grocery Company, which operates Brookshire's, Fresh, Super 1 Foods, and Spring Market supermarkets in the Ark-La-Tex and parts of DallasFort Worth. The city and metropolitan area also has a growing manufacturing sector including: Tyler Pipe, a subsidiary of McWane Inc. that produces soil and utility pipe products; Trane Technologies Inc., formerly a unit of American Standard Companies, which manufactures air conditioners and heat pumps. Delek Refining, an Israeli-owned oil refinery formerly La Gloria Oil and Gas Co (a Crown Central Petroleum subsidiary); PCSFerguson, an operating company of Dover Corporation that specializes in equipment for the measurement and production of natural gas using the plunger lift method. DYNAenergetics Tyler Distribution Center, a manufacturer of perforating equipment and explosives for the oil and gas industry; and Vesuvius USA, an manufacturer of refractory ceramics used in the steel industry. According to the city's 2012-2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top ten employers were: Tyler, Texas; Tyler, Oklahoma; Tyler and surrounding areas; Tyler-Fort Worth; and Tyler-Worth, Texas. Tyler is home to the University of Texas at Tyler, which was founded in 1883. Tyler-Tyler is home of the Texas Institute of Technology, which is a graduate of the prestigious Texas A&M University-Tyler program. The university's business school is located in Tyler. Tyler has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.

Recreation and tourism

Tyler is home to Caldwell Zoo, Lake Palestine, Lake Tyler, and numerous golf courses and country clubs. The Smith County Historical Society operates a museum and archives in the old Carnegie Library. Tyler State Park, a few miles north of the city limits, attracts visitors with opportunities to camp, canoe, and paddle boat on the lake. Lake Tyler was the location of the HGTV Dream Home contest in 2005. The East Texas State Fair is held annually in Tyler. Harvey Convention Center, the largest building at Tyler's fairgrounds is slated for demolition in August 2021. Tyler has a Cotton Belt Railroad Depot Museum near the Chamber of Commerce office. Tyler is the site of the largest Confederate Prisoner of War camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. It is on Highway 271, 0.8 mi (1.3 km) north of Loop 323. It was subsequently sold at public auction in January 2008, for US$1,325,000 (equivalent to $1,667,616 in 2021) It is also home to the long-standing tradition of the Azalea Belles, young women from the Tyler area who dress in antebellum gowns. The society's archival library contains historical artifacts of Smith County, including newspapers, city directories, school records, photographs, maps, historical papers, and rare books. The archives are open to the public for research on a limited schedule with volunteer staff on duty. The museum exhibits include life-size dioramas of Smith county history, with topics ranging from the Caddo Indians to the 20th century.

Sports

Tyler features fifteen disc golf courses and seven leagues, and the surrounding area features a total of thirty-six courses and seventeen leagues. For these reasons, users of the disc golf app UDisc ranked Tyler as the third best disc golf destination in Texas and second best in the United States. Tyler is home to the University of Texas at Tyler and the Tyler Junior College Apaches. Tyler also has a professional football team, the Tyler FC, and a professional baseball team, East Texas Twisters. The Tyler area is also home to a number of high school and junior college football teams, as well as a junior college baseball team. The city is also the home of the Fresh 15 Road Race, which is an annual road race that takes place in the summer of each year. The town has a large number of sports teams, including baseball, football, soccer, and rugby. Tyler's football team is known for its success in the Texas High School Football League and the Texas Junior College Football League. It is also known as the "Tyler FC" because of its association with the Tyler College of Science and Technology, which was founded in the 1970s. Tyler has a high school football team that won the state championship in the 1990s. It has also been the site of several high school cross-country events, including the Texas State High School Championship and Texas A&M-Cross Country Championship. It also hosts a high-school soccer team that has won the national championship in several years. The football team has also won several state championships in the past.

Government

Tyler is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, currently represented by Republican Louie Gohmert. The United States Postal Service operates several post offices in Tyler, including Tyler, Azalea, Southeast Crossing, and the South Tyler Annex. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Region I Parole Division Office and the Tyler District Parole Office in Tyler. Tyler is represented in the Texas Senate by Republican Bryan Hughes, District 1, and in theTexas House of Representatives by Republican Matt Schaefer, District 6. The two U.S. senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. The city's various funds had $87.7 million in revenues, $101.7million in expenditures, $49.2 million in total assets, and $17.6 million in cash in investments in 2009. The Northeast Texas Public Health District is a political subdivision under the State of Texas established by the City of Tyler and Smith County. With a stated vision "To be the Healthiest Community in Texas", the district has a full-time staff of over 130 employees. The Tyler Police Department is based in Tyler and has a force of about 1,000 officers. The City ofTyler is a member of the Texas Association of Police Chiefs. The Police Department has a fleet of more than 1,200 vehicles, including police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and ambulances. The police department also has a fire department, ambulance service, and emergency medical services. It is also home to the Tyler Fire Department.

Education

Tyler is home to the University of Texas at Tyler University Academy at Tyler, a K12 public charter that offers university courses to students in grades 912. The Tyler Catholic School System of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler consists of St. Gregory Cathedral School and Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Regional Catholic Middle and High School. There are also private schools in Tyler, including Grace Community School (Texas), All Saints Episcopal School, Seventh-day Adventist Church School, King's Academy Christian School, Kingdom Life Academy, Christian Heritage School, East Texas Christian Academy, and Good Shepherd Reformed Episcopal School. The city is also home to Texas College, the city's only HBCU, and Tyler Junior College. Tyler is served by the Tyler Independent School District, which includes high schools Tyler High School and Tyler Legacy High School, as well as Tyler ISD Early College High School, Premier High School of Tyler is a public charter school (Cumberland Academy). Several Tyler schools offer international baccalaureate and advanced placement programs. These include sections of southeast Tyler, served by. the Whitehouse Independent School district, and some sections in the east which are served by The Chapel Hill Independent. School District. The Brook Hill School in nearby Bullard, TX is also served by Tyler Independent school District. Tyler has a reputation for being a hotbed of crime, with the Tyler Police Department and Tyler County Sheriff's Office making arrests for drug possession and possession of marijuana in the city in the past.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Tyler, Smith County, Texas = 43.5. 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 77. 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 Tyler = 5.3 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 105,995 individuals with a median age of 34.2 age the population grows by 16.98% in Tyler, Smith County, Texas population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 1,862.10 residents per square mile of area (718.95/km²). There are average 2.53 people per household in the 37,222 households with an average household income of $41,142 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 7.50% of the available work force and has dropped -1.80% 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 28.90%. The number of physicians in Tyler per 100,000 population = 337.9.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Tyler = 48.1 inches and the annual snowfall = 1.1 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 100. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 218. 94 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 37.3 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 24, 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 Tyler, Smith County, Texas which are owned by the occupant = 52.69%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 34 years with median home cost = $132,560 and home appreciation of -2.46%. 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 $12.06 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 $4,642 per student. There are 14 students for each teacher in the school, 671 students for each Librarian and 475 students for each Counselor. 6.80% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 17.85% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 9.88% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).