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State:     Alabama

City:       Auburn

Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2008 population of 56,088.  It is a principal city of the Auburn Metropolitan Area, an MSA with a population of 130,516 which, along with the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama MSA and the Tuskegee, Alabama Micropolitan Statistical Area, comprises the greater Columbus--Auburn--Opelika, Georgia--Alabama Combined Statistical Area a region home to approximately 500,000 residents.

Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University. Auburn has been marked in recent years by rapid growth, and is currently the fastest growing metropolitan area in Alabama and the nineteenth-fastest growing metro area in the United States since 1990. U.S.News has ranked Auburn in the top ten in its 2009 list of best places to live in United States. The city's unofficial nickname is "The Loveliest Village On The Plains," taken from a line in the poem "The Deserted Village" by Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain..."

In 1856, the state legislature chartered a Methodist college, the East Alabama Male College in Auburn. This college, now Auburn University, opened its doors in 1859, offering a classical and liberal education.

In 1892, the college became the first four-year college in Alabama to admit women. This, combined with increased interest in scientific agriculture and engineering and new funding from business licenses, allowed the city to start expanding again. By 1910, Auburn's population had returned to its antebellum level. SIAA Conference championships won by the Auburn college's football team brought attention and support to Auburn, and helped fill the city's coffers.

A series of reports in the 1980s and 1990s ranking the Auburn public school system among the top in the state and nation convinced thousands of new residents to move to Auburn over the past 25 years. Between 1980 and 2003, Auburn's population grew by 65%, and Auburn's economy expanded by 220%. With growth came issues of urban sprawl, which has become the primary political issue in Auburn at the turn of the 21st century.

Auburn sits on the fall line at the juncture of the piedmont plateau and the coastal plain. Portions of Auburn also include the southernmost exposure of rocks indicating the Appalachian orogeny--as such, the last foothill of the Appalachian Mountains lies in Chewacla State Park in southern Auburn. As a result of these three varied physical environments, Auburn has an extremely diverse geology.

Auburn has a typically Southern climate marked by mild winters, hot, muggy summers, and moderate autumns and springs. Due to Auburn's position near the Gulf of Mexico, the city receives a significant amount of rainfall--on average, 52.6 inches (1,336.04 mm) per year--though there is a distinct dry season in the late summer and early fall. Severe storm activity is common from the late winter through early summer. Owing to its proximity to the Gulf, Auburn is also subject to fringe effects from tropical storms and hurricanes in the summer and fall. Hurricanes Opal in 1995 and Ivan in 2004 are among two of the most notable tropical systems to affect the Auburn area in recent memory, bringing torrential rains and high winds.

Income & Housing Costs Numbers:

Estimated median household income in 2008: $23,229 (it was $17,206 in 2000)

Auburn:	$23,229
Alabama:	$42,666

Estimated per capita income in 2008: $23,459

Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $197,845 (it was $116,100 in 2000)

Auburn:	$197,845
Alabama:	$121,500

Mean prices in 2008: All housing units: $242,293; Detached houses: $287,654; Townhouses or other attached units: $212,904; In 2-unit structures: $273,850; In 3-to-4-unit structures: $138,925; In 5-or-more-unit structures: $124,638; Mobile homes: $19,119

Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Auburn: 102.6 (near average, U.S. average is 100)

In-Depth Facts and Figures as listed below, plus other information:

·        Climate Charts

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5.      Snowfall

6.      Sunshine

7.      Cloudy Days

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·        Airports

·        Colleges/Universities

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·        Churches

·        Lakes/Streams/Rivers/Creeks/Parks

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·        Banks

·        Housing Costs Information

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