Chino (California)

See also: Chino

Chino is a city located in the Comté of San Bernardino, in the state of California. With the census of 2000 the city had a population of 67.168 inhabitants.

Chino and its neighborhoods were for a long time an important center of the Milk industry, serving the considerable demands for dairy products of California of the South and most of the the United States of south-west. It is also known like the seat of important a Prison California, the California Institution for Men.

The city developed starting from the Années 1970 downtown périurbaine forming the Western anchor of the area of the Inland Empire. Although this development gradually took the character of a town of middle-class, Chino is perceived negatively by the many Californian ones (criminality, Smog , pollution…) whereas reality shows that these elements are in fact in lower part of the average compared to other American suburbs, according to FBI UCR.

Geography

Chino is located in the middle of the area of the Grand Los Angeles and is easily accessible with highways 71 and 60. The close communities are Chino Hills in the west, a not-built-in zone of the Comté of San Bernardino (close to Montclair) in north, Ontario in the North-East and of the not-built-in zones of the Comté of San Bernardino and that of Riverside in south-east and the south.

Chino is located at. According to the Office of the Census the city has an total surface area of 54,5 km ² of which the proportion out of water (0,05%) is negligible.

Demography

According to a census of 2000, there are 67.168 people with Chino, including 17.304 households, and 14.102 families resident in the city.

The United States Census Bureau established that the Community répartion of the population was the following one:

On the 17.304 households, 47,3% have a child of less than 18 years, 62,5% are married couples, 12,9% do not have husbands present, and 18,5% are not families. 14,1% of these households are made of a person including 5,2% of a person of 65 or more.

The Middle Age of the population is 31 years. For 100 women it there 124,3 men. For 100 women of 18 or more, there are 133,1 men.

The average revenue of a household is of 41 056,02 € ($ 55.401), and that of a family of 44 195,93€ ($59 638). The men have an average revenue of 26 571,06€ ($35 855) against 22 429,97€ ($30 267) for the women. The average revenue per capita is of 13 023,56€ ($17 574). Nearly 6,3% to the families and 8,3% of the population lives in lower part of the Poverty line, including 10,0% of those in 18 year old lower part and 8,5% of those of 65 and more.

Notable people originating in Chino

  • Abe Vigoda - American actor
  • Geoff Blum - player of Baseball
  • Chad Cordero - Relief Pitcher of the Washington Nationals
  • Kenny Hendrick - conducting NASCAR
  • Aaron Hosack - player of Football
  • Shelly Martinez - professional fighter
  • Diana Taurasi - player in WNBA

Attractions

Plane off Famed and Yanks Air Museum are two museums of the air located in the airport of Chino ( Chino Airport , code AITA: CNO).

Chino in the popular culture

The term Chino often refers, in music and on television, with the prison.

  • On television, in the series The O.C, the main character, Ryan Atwood, is a teenager of Chino adopted by an easy family of Newport Beach. In the series, Chino is depicted like a dull slum. This representation of the city led civils servant of this one to carry felt sorry for. * Chino was used as site of turning of the film Retour towards the future, whose farm from where Marty goes up time for the first time in 1955.

  • Chino is mentioned in a song written by Robert Hunter: Friend off the Devil, sung by Grateful Dead.
  • Chino is mentioned in two songs interpreted by The Mountain Goats: " Going to Chino" and " Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Toilets, Triumph Of".
  • In the film 2 Fast 2 Furious, Brian O' Conner (Paul Walker) known as " I' D rather take my chances in Chino" (" I would try my chance with Chino" rather;) once one asked him either to cooperate with the police force or to be made imprison.

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