Tag: Mount Airy
Mount Airy is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,388.
Mount Airy was settled in the 1750s as a stagecoach stop on the road between Winston-Salem and Galax, Virginia. It was named for a nearby plantation. Mount Airy was incorporated in 1885.
Mount Airy is located at 36°30′3″N 80°36′34″W / 36.50083°N 80.60944°W / 36.50083; -80.60944 (36.500756, -80.609311), along the Ararat River. The United States Census Bureau says the city has a total area of 8.4 square miles (22 km), all of it land.
As of the census of 2010, there were 10,388, and 4,934 households. The people per square mile was 891.4. There was 5,296 housing units. The Population percent change from 2000 to 2010 was 22.4% up. The racial makeup of the city was 84.1% White American, 8.2% African American, 0.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.4% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 2.2% Persons reporting two or more races, 6.7% Hispanic or…
