San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, is known as the “Alamo City”, “Heart of Texas” and “the place where the sunshine spends the winter.” People come to visit the site where frontiersman Davey Crockett, soldier Jim Bowie, Lieutenant William Travis, and 185 others gave their lives for freedom from Mexico. San Antonio has an illustrious past and a bristling cosmopolitan present. San Antonio is the seat of Bexar County, and is situated between the Gulf Coastal Plains to the southeast and the Edwards Plateau to the northwest, in south central Texas. The San Antonio River crosses six miles of city blocks. San Antonio was founded in 1718 and incorporated in 1809. San Antonio has an area of 407.6 square miles (2000). It is elevated at approximately 701 feet above sea level. The climate is semitropical and summers are hot. On an average 111 days each year temperatures reach 90 degrees or higher. The annual rainfall is about 28 inches leading to the production of most crops. For about twenty days, temperatures drop below freezing in the winters.
The population in the year 2000 was 1,144,646 with males comprising 48.3% and females comprising 51.7%. The median resident age was 31.7 years, and the median household income was $36,214. The industries providing employment are educational, healthcare, retail trade, accommodation, tourism, government, entertainment, and arts. The Alamo Workforce Development Council assists businesses in screening, and recruitment. Projected job growth by 2009 is expected to be 87,340 new jobs.