Tallmadge, Ohio
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As of the census
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of 2000, there were 16,390 people, 6,273 households, and 4,711 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,173.9 people per square mile (453.3/km2). There were 6,494 housing units at an average density of 465.1 per square mile (179.6/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 95.78% White, 2.08% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.87% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.08% from other races
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, and 1.05% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.57% of the population.

There were 6,273 households out of which 32.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.0% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 8.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.9% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 2.99.

In the city the population was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $49,381, and the median income for a family was $56,780. Males had a median income of $44,606 versus $28,056 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the city was $27,329. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 3.4% of those age 65 or over.

Education

The Tallmadge City Schools (website) provide primary and secondary education for the 2,700 public school students within Tallmadge. Students within the Tallmadge City School district attend Overdale School, Dunbar Primary, Munroe Elementary, Tallmadge Middle School, and Tallmadge High School
Tallmadge High School
Tallmadge High School is a public high school in Tallmadge, Ohio, USA. It is the only high school in the Tallmadge City School District.The high school is also part of the Six District Educational Compact, a joint program of six area school districts to share access to each of their vocational...

 consecutively from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Tallmadge Christian Academy provides parochial primary and secondary education within the city itself, but many students from Tallmadge seeking a parochial education attend other parochial schools outside of the city.

Among other institutions, Kent State University
Kent State University
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 and the University of Akron
University of Akron
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 provide post-secondary education in the adjacent cities of Kent
Kent, Ohio
Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in Northeastern Ohio on the western edge of the county. The population was 27,906 at the 2000 United States Census and 28,904 in the 2010 Census...

 and Akron; the majority of college-bound students from Tallmadge High School attend one of these two schools after graduation. No colleges or universities currently exist within Tallmadge, but Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
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 began its first classes in Tallmadge in 1826 before moving to a permanent facility in nearby Hudson and its current home in Cleveland as part of Case Western Reserve University.

Sports

Tallmadge athletes have received local, statewide, regional, national, and international recognition. In particular, Little League Baseball teams have represented the city in the 1974
1974 Little League World Series
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 and 2003
2003 Little League World Series
-Champions path:The Musashi-Fuchu LL reached the LLWS with a undefeated record of four wins and no losses. In total, their record was 10-0.-Notes:*† Postponed *‡ Game ended by "mercy rule"...

 Little League World Series
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. The 1974 team advanced to the semi-final round, finishing in fourth place.

The Tallmadge Blue Devils captured its first baseball state championship in 2002, after knocking off Defiance (for which current Los Angeles Dodger Chad Billingsley
Chad Billingsley
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 threw) and Edison, respectively.

Landmarks

At the center of the town is the Historic Tallmadge Church (built in 1825), recognized as a historic place by the Ohio Historical Society
Ohio Historical Society
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, and was featured on the cover of the November 20, 1944, edition of Life magazine
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. An intersection surrounds the church and a small park, the Tallmadge Circle Park, on which the church sits. The Circle Park is also home to Tallmadge's Old Town Hall (established 1859), which houses a museum on its second floor. In 2003, a new steeple was placed atop the Old Town Hall, replacing the original which had been removed decades earlier.

The Circle itself, which surrounds the Historic Church, Old Town Hall, and Circle Park, continues to be a notable landmark at the center of the town. While two separate Ohio state routes meet at the intersection (SR 91 and SR 261; at one point SR 18 and SR 532 also met there), the one-lane circle can and regularly does accommodate several dozen vehicles at a time without congestion. The eight roads that meet at the Circle form a spoke design (see image, upper right) that, as they lead away from the Circle, travel in the cardinal
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 and ordinal directions. The roads are named according to the respective directions they travel away from the Circle (e.g. Northwest Avenue); these names are not preserved by the neighboring municipalities into which the eight roads run. Each of these eight radiating roads comes to a six-point intersection within the city. In summer 2010, one of these six-point intersections in the northeastern portion of Tallmadge was converted to a roundabout based on the design of the original Circle. Out-of-town drivers are sometimes uncomfortable navigating the intersection because of the lack of stop signs or traffic lights.

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Notable residents

  • Mike Bettes, meteorologist for The Weather Channel
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     in Atlanta, Georgia
  • John Parry
    John Parry (American football official)
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    , National Football League referee
  • Larsen
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