Known as for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (commonly referred to at a "Katy Railroad", okay, the section of Union Pacific) that ran through it in a 19th century, the Houston suburb's prime attraction is the Katy Mills Mall. The secondary attraction is an unusual outdoor museum of Chinese culture and history called a Forbidden Gardens.

Actresses Renée Zellweger and Renee O'Connor were born in Katy. United states music performing artist Clint Black, Trading Spaces designer Frank Bielec, and American Idol contestant Kimberly Caldwell are from there too.

List Of Mayors
Dan Cox (1971-1979)

John G. Morrison (1979-1983)

Johnny Nelson (1983-1987)

Ward The. Stanberry(1988-1991)

J.W. "Skip" Conner(1991-1995)

M.H. "Hank" Schmidt (1995-2001)

Doyle G. Callender (2001-Present)

Geography
Katy is placed at 29°47'33" North, 95°49'21" West (Twenty-nine.792582, -95.822436).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the amount front yard of Xxvii.Hexad km² (10.7 mi²). None of the front yard is covered by having fluids.

City of Katy vs. Katy Area
Katy residents typically split a city into ii informal sections: "Old Katy" (or even Katy Proper) & "Katy Area". Old Katy is fundamentally a actual City of Katy & lies mostly northerly of Interstate 10. This is a original Katy from either prior to the Seventies after Houston's Energy Corridor mass produced its way west in I personally-10 & a development that come by using it.

Katy Vicinity is mass produced higher of big sections of unincorporated Harris and Fort Bend counties and for the most part sits east of the City of Katy. This region is inside the Katy Independent School District & about everyone in that vicinity has a Katy postal location. Katy Locality includes recently developments like Cinco Ranch & Gr& Streams, lakes, and wells throughout, when too encompassing developments from either a Seventies and Eighties like Memorial Parkway and Nottingham Country. Tons of "Katy Area" lies in the city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), not Katy's ETJ. This means that a areas of "Katy Area" come controlled per city of Houston & a city has a ability to annex it later. A city of Katy could non annex this region unless a city of Houston releases a locality's ETJ to Katy, which has occurred withinside many little chunks in recent years. A virtually all recent case of this was around 2001 when Houston ceded about 400 landed estate (Single.Captain hicks klick²) of ETJ to a City of Katy to allow the Katy Mills Mall and surrounding park to exist as built totally in a City of Katy.

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
A Katy area absorbed many m evacuees in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There is no attempt has been processed for an exact count of how else numerous evacuees from either Louisiana & Mississippi come in a regiin, nevertheless the Katy Independent School dominion reported on September 7, 2005 that it experienced received 1,161 fresh students in the district following of the hurricane. City manager Doyle Callender around a Houstaround Chronicle locate on September 14, 2005 forecasted there come 3,000 to 4,000 evacuees in Katy regional shelters when Five hundred of victims are in shelters within the Katy city limits. There are belike hundreds to thousands further inside lasting housing units throughout a Katy region. One of the primary reasons how come Katy absorbed such a prominent total of evacuees is its locatiin on Interstate 10, a major east-west artery through the vicinity & straight feeder route of evacuees from either Up to date Orleans & the Gulf Coast vicinity of Mississippi. Nonentity in a required evacuations in the aftermath of the storm was evacuated to the Katy area; everyone world health organizatiin is in the area reached the city & area on their have.

Demographics
When of the census of 2000, there are 11,775 people, 3,888 home, & 3,083 families living in the city. A population density is 426.1/km² (1,103.7/mi²). There are 4,072 housing units at an typical density of 147.3/km² (381.7/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 83.98% White, 4.24% African American, 0.56% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 8.65% from other races, and 2.03% from two or more races. Twenty-three.75% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 3,888 house away from which 45.7% own babies under a age of Xviii accept the babies, 63.9% come married couples residing together, X.9% have a female homeowner by using there is no hubby present, & Xx.7% come non-families. Seventeen.4% of tons home come processed higher of souls & Sise.7% develop soul dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical menage size is Ternary.00 & a typical personal size is Deuce-ace.37.

In a city the people is spread retired by using 31.5% under a age of Xviii, Ogdoad.7% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Xxx.9% from either 25 to 44, Xx.7% from either 45 to 64, & Eighter.1% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 33 years. For each Century females there are 98.Sestet males. For each Century females age Eighteen & terminated, there are 97.Fivesome males.

the median income for a house in the city is $51,111, & the median income for a personal is $57,741. Males have a median income of $38,412 versus $33,004 for females. A by the capita income for the city is $21,192. Ogdoad.4% of the people & Sevener.0% of families come beneath a poverty level. Away from a amount humans residing within impoverishment, Niner.1% come under a age of 18 & 6.5% come 65 or even older.

Education
Pupils world health organization sleep within Katy come zoned to schools in Katy Independent School District.

Katy is served per Houston Community College System.