County of Yolo

The county of Yolo is a county of the State of California. With the census of 2000, it counted 168.660 inhabitants. Its seat is Woodland.

One of the 11 original counties of the State, the county of Yolo is the center of the production of Tomate S of California; it only accounts for with him 90% of the US market.

History

The County of Yolo was one of the eleven counties founders of the State, created in 1850.

In 1850 the exact name was " Yola" , Yolo is a name Amerindian being is a modification of the tribal word Yo-loy meaning " an abundant place in joncs" or is name of the chief, Yodo, or of the name of the village of Yodoi.

Government

The county is supervised by five supervisors of district, just as by the government of four built-in cities: Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, and Woodland.

Geography

According to U.S. Census Office, the county has an entire surface of 2649 km ². 2624 km ² are grounds and 25 km ² of water.

Cities built-in

  • Davis

  • West Sacramento
  • Winters
  • Woodland

The Communities not-built-in

There are other communities not-listed below.
  • Broderick
  • Brooks
  • Bryte
  • Capay
  • Clarksburg
  • Conway Ranch
  • Dunnigan
  • El Macero
  • Plainfield
  • Rumsey
  • Yolo
  • Zamora

Adjacent counties

Demography

According to a census of 2000, there are 168.660 people in the County of Yolo, including 59.375 households, and 37.465 families resident in the city.

Nearly 68,5% speak English, 19.5% Spanish, 2.1% Chinese or Mandarin and 1.8% Russian like language nursery school.

On the 59.375 households, 33,60% have a child of less than 18 years, 47,60% are married couples, 11,10% do not have husbands present, and 36,90% are not families. 23,30% of these households are made of a person including 7,30% of a person of 65 or more.

The Middle Age of the population is 30 years. For 100 women it there 95,6 men. For 100 women of 18 or more, there are 92,2 men.

The average revenue of a household is of 30 354,05 € ($ 40.769), and that of a family of 38 435,26€ ($51 623). The men have an average revenue of 28 308,27€ ($38 022) against 22 847,19€ ($30 687) for the women. The average revenue per capita is of 14 418,05€ ($19 365). Nearly 9,5% to the families and 18,4% of the population lives in lower part of the Poverty line, including 16,0% of those in 18 year old lower part and 7,4% of those of 65 and more.

Transport infrastructure

Axes major

  • Interstate 5
  • Interstate 80
  • Interstate 505
  • California State Road 16
  • California State Road 45
  • California State Road 113
  • California State Road 128

Public transport

  • Yolobus circulates in the County of Yolo and Sacramento.
  • the town of Davis and the the University of California with Davis jointly operates the Unitrans, which makes the shuttle between the campus and the cities of the county.
  • Fairfield-Suisun Transit line 30 stops in Davis at the time of are passage between Fairfield and Sacramento.
  • Amtrak has a station with Davis.

Airports

  • the International airport of Sacramento is in close Comté of Sacramento.
  • the Airport Watts Woodland and the Aéroport of Yolo County are two airports of general aviation located in the county of Yolo.

External bonds

  • Official site of the county

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