Amado is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Pima County
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,
Arizona
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, United States. The population was 295 at the
2010 census.
The Population decreased to 198 as of the
2020 census
Geography
Amado is located at (31.704900, -111.065492).
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.33%, is water.
Demographics
Amado's population was 40 in the 1960 census.
Amado appeared on the 2000 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP).
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 275 people, 104 households, and 66 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 107 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 70.9%
White
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, 0.4%
Black
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or
African American
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, 1.1%
Native American, 0.7%
Asian, 26.2% from
other races, and 0.7% from two or more races. 43.3% of the population were
Hispanic
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or
Latino of any race.
There were 104 households, out of which 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were
married couples
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living together, 8.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.6% were non-families. 27.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.39.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 29.1% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $20,417, and the median income for a family was $82,922. Males had a median income of $22,946 versus $26,563 for females. The
per capita income
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In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
for the CDP was $21,452. About 7.1% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 27.3% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.
Amado in film
The opening "
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" is the opening song from the musical ''Oklahoma!'', which premiered on Broadway in 1943. It was written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The leading male character in ''Oklah ...
" sequence in the 1955 film ''
Oklahoma!
''Oklahoma!'' is the first musical theater, musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs''. Set in farm country outside the town of ...
'', with
Gordon MacRae
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singing the famous song while riding a horse past the stalks of corn "as high as a elephant's eye", was filmed in Amado. One scene in ''
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
''Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' is a 1974 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the Southwestern United St ...
'' was filmed in Amado at the Long Horn Grill, an iconic restaurant with an entrance in the shape of a large cow skull.
See also
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Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
*
MMT Observatory
The MMT Observatory (MMTO) is an astronomical observatory on the site of Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (IAU observatory code 696). The Whipple observatory complex is located on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, US (55 km south of Tucson) in the ...
– visitor center for observatory is in Amado
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2015 Amado checkpoint protest
References
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Census-designated places in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Census-designated places in Arizona
Populated places in the Sonoran Desert