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 State:     Florida

City:       Hudson

Hudson is a census-designated place (CDP) located at the westernmost end of Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburb included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, Hudson's population was 12,765.

In 1878, Isaac Hudson moved his family to the uninhabited brush of coastal Pasco County and established a post office at a place he named Hudson's Landing. The town grew in the early twentieth century when the Fivay Company[1] began cutting lumber and shipping it by rail to Tampa. Hudson stagnated when the Fivay Company went out of business and people turned to the sea or moved away; shrimping and fishing employed about half of the working men in the 1930s to 1950s. In the late 1950s, a team of realtors paid the Army Corps of Engineers to dig 25 miles of canals as if they were streets. The lots along the new waterfront area were then sold, bringing many new residents to Hudson. In the 1980s, people began building larger homes (most of which were mobile homes) along the canals. Now, while its older waterfront is reviving, large residential developments are spreading inland.

Robert J. Strickland Memorial Park (Hudson Beach), built in the 1960s, is the main beach for the Hudson community. Veterans Memorial Park and Arthur F. Engle Memorial Park are the main indoor and outdoor sports and recreation centers, with indoor gymnasiums and outdoor fields. There are also three semiprivate golf courses: Links Golf Club, Meadow Oaks Golf & Country Club, and Seapines Golf Club. Hudson once proclaimed itsef the "Gopher Racing Capital of the World."

Hudson also is host to a number of vacation resorts, including a fine "clothing optional" AANR resort. They provide camping and RV, including rentals.

Income & Housing Costs Numbers:

Estimated median household income in 2007: $44,807 (it was $33,177 in 2000)

Hudson:	$44,807
Florida:	$47,804

Estimated per capita income in 2007: $25,119

Hudson:	$25,119
Florida:	$26,696

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $204,992 (it was $81,900 in 2000)

Hudson:	$204,992
Florida:	$230,400

Mean prices in 2007: All housing units: $211,392; Detached houses: $256,135; Townhouses or other attached units: $157,821; In 3-to-4-unit structures: $153,583; In 5-or-more-unit structures: $172,442; Mobile homes: $32,922; Occupied boats, RVs, vans, etc.: $5,000

2008 cost of living index in Hudson: 92.3 (less than average, U.S. average is 100)

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