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Austin, TX Economic Statistics

NumberPercentEMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over523,758100.0In labor force376,70471.9Civilian labor force376,21271.8Employed359,80468.7Unemployed16,4083.1Percent of civilian labor…

Austin, TX, Housing Statistics

NumberPercentTotal housing units276,611100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached128,73746.51-unit, attached13,0844.72 units14,7775.33 or 4 units12,9084.75 to 9 units17,9896.510 to 19 units26,5309.…

Austin, TX Social Statistics

NumberPercentSCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school192,181100.0Nursery school, preschool11,1395.8Kindergarten9,2804.8Elementary school (grades 1-8)63,04332.8High school (…

Ney, Elisabeth

(Encyclopedia) Ney, Elisabeth or ElisabetNey, Elisabeth or Elisabetnī [key], 1833–1907, German-American sculptor, b. Münster. After studying sculpture at Munich and Berlin, she traveled widely and…

Hilton, Walter

(Encyclopedia) Hilton, Walter, d. 1396, English religious writer, an Austin canon of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire. His spiritual treatise The Scale of Perfection (ed. by Evelyn Underhill, 1923) is a…

Kelly, Ellsworth

(Encyclopedia) Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923–2015, American painter, b. Newburgh, N.Y. He moved to New York City in 1941, studying at Pratt Institute, and later attended the Boston Museum Arts School. In…

Ward, Artemus

(Encyclopedia) Ward, Artemus, pseud. of Charles Farrar Browne, 1834–67, American humorist, b. Waterford, Maine. As a reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he began in 1858 a series of “Artemus Ward…

Fröding, Gustaf

(Encyclopedia) Fröding, GustafFröding, Gustafgŭsˈtäv fröˈdĭng [key], 1860–1911, Swedish lyric poet. His first two volumes of poems, Guitar and Concertina (1891) and New Poems (1894), both translated…

J. F. Powers Biography

J. F. Powers(James Farl Powers)Age: 81 acclaimed writer of short stories and novels who won the 1963 National Book Award for Morte d'Urban. The successful short story collection Prince of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Power

PowerHis tongue was framed to music, And his hand was armed with skill; His face was the mould of beauty, And his heart the throne of will.