Seville is a

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Tulare County Tulare County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 473,117. The county seat is Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lake ...

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, United States. Seville is located along

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southeast of Cutler and . northwest of Woodlake. The population was 446 at the 2020 census.

History

Seville was named by officials of the

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in 1913. The first child born in Seville was Dorothy Seville Wilhour on December 21, 1914. The town gave her father a $20 gold piece for naming the child after the town. A post office was established in Seville in 1915 and was closed in 1931

Geography

According to the

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, the CDP covers an area of 0.3 square miles (0.7 km), all of it land.

Water system

In March 2011, Catarina de Albuquerque of the

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visited Seville to evaluate the community's water system. She was appointed by the UN's Human Rights Council in 2008 as the first UN Independent Expert on human rights obligations with respect to access to safe drinking water and sanitation. She said that many families in Tulare County spend more than 10 percent of their income on tap and bottled water because the tap water is contaminated with

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from agricultural fertilizers, septic systems and dairy farms. De Albuquerque added that this expense cuts into their ability to pay for other essential needs such as "food, housing, education and health." In Seville in 1911, many residents were spending more than $120 per month on water while the average annual household income was only $16,000.

Demographics

The 2020 United States census reported that Seville had a population of 446. The population density was . The racial makeup of Seville was 81 (18.2%)

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, 0 (0.0%)

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, 27 (6.1%) Native American, 1 (0.2%) Asian, 0 (0.0%)

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, 208 (46.6%) from other races, and 129 (28.9%) from two or more races.

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of any race were 419 persons (93.9%). The whole population lived in households. There were 99 households, out of which 50 (50.5%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 51 (51.5%) were married-couple households, 8 (8.1%) were

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couple households, 20 (20.2%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 20 (20.2%) had a male householder with no partner present. 17 households (17.2%) were one person, and 4 (4.0%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 4.51. There were 77

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(77.8% of all households). The age distribution was 147 people (33.0%) under the age of 18, 54 people (12.1%) aged 18 to 24, 126 people (28.3%) aged 25 to 44, 81 people (18.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 38 people (8.5%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 27.1years. For every 100 females, there were 98.2 males. There were 105 housing units at an average density of , of which 99 (94.3%) were occupied. Of these, 47 (47.5%) were owner-occupied, and 52 (52.5%) were occupied by renters.

References

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