Manila is a
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
located adjacent to
Humboldt Bay
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in
Humboldt County,
California
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.
It is located north of downtown
Eureka
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,
at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m).
The
ZIP Code is 95521. The population was 798 at the 2020 census.
History
The town was founded at the end of
World War II
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, and named after
Manila
Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the Capital of the Philippines, capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City, with a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on ...
in the
Philippines
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.
Humboldt Coastal Nature Center of Friends of the Dunes on Stamps Lane includes the Stamps Dune House and surrounding dune landscape. The house was originally built in 1985 as a retirement home of a couple whose heirs sold a large part of their property and the house to Manila-based Friends of the Dunes to use as a nature center on the dunes in 2007.
Demographics
Manila first appeared as 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 ...
in the
2010 U.S. Census.
[
The 2020 United States census reported that Manila had a population of 798. The population density was . The racial makeup of Manila was 621 (77.8%) ]White
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, 11 (1.4%) African American
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, 27 (3.4%) Native American, 8 (1.0%) Asian, 3 (0.4%) Pacific Islander
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, 32 (4.0%) from other races, and 96 (12.0%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 83 persons (10.4%).cohabiting
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couple households, 67 (18.6%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 129 (35.7%) had a male householder with no partner present. 121 households (33.5%) were one person, and 49 (13.6%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.21.[ There were 178 ]families
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(49.3% of all households).
The age distribution was 123 people (15.4%) under the age of 18, 77 people (9.6%) aged 18 to 24, 266 people (33.3%) aged 25 to 44, 184 people (23.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 148 people (18.5%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 39.4years. For every 100 females, there were 112.8 males.[
There were 400 housing units at an average density of , of which 361 (90.3%) were occupied. Of these, 174 (48.2%) were owner-occupied, and 187 (51.8%) were occupied by renters.][
]
Government
In the state legislature
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, Manila is in , and , as of July 2024.
Federally, it is in
See also
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References
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Census-designated places in Humboldt County, California
Populated places established in 1945
Census-designated places in California
Populated coastal places in California