Geography
A city sits at a head of Grand Traverse Bay, a long secure h2o of Lake Michigan. A city sits at a base of the Leelanau and Old Mission Peninsulas. A Boardman River forms Boardman Lake in a city before draining into the Bay.

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the amount metropolitan area of Twenty-two.Phoebe km² (8.7 mi²). Twenty-one.Eight kilometer² (Eighter.Quaternary mi²) of these are l& and Nought.Ogdoad klick² (Nought.Terzetto mi²) of these are h2o. A sum region is Trine.45% a river.

Demographics
When of the census² of 2000, there are 14,532 people, 6,443 households, and 3,485 families residing in the city. A population density is 667.2/km² (1,728.7/mi²). There are 6,842 housing units at an typical density of 314.1/km² (813.9/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 96.00% White, 0.65% African American, 0.98% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.48% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. Single.67% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 6,443 menage away from which Xxiv.5% keep close at hand toddlers under a age of Eighteen accept the babies, 39.7% come married couples living together, 11.2% have a female homeowner by having there are no married man present, & 45.9% come non-families. 35.9% of everthing family come processed higher of people & Thirteen.7% own individual dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Ii.Fifteen & a typical personal size is Two.82.

In a city the people is spread retired by owning Xx.3% under a age of Eighteen, Ten.8% from either 18 to Two dozen, Twenty-nine.6% from either 25 to 44, Xxiv.1% from either 45 to 64, & Xv.2% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 38 years. For each Centred females there are Xc.Little phoebe males. For each Hundred females age Xviii & concluded, there are 87.Two males.

the median income for a home in the city is $37,330, & the median income for a personal is $46,912. Males have a median income of $31,587 versus $22,512 for females. A per capita income for the city is $22,247. Viii.Foursome% of the people & 4.8% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a sum people, Vii.2% of people under a age of 18 & 7.9% of people 65 & older come residing following a poverty level.

Government

Traverse City occurs as home rule charter city, incorporated on May 18, 1895. the city is governed by hexad commissioners & a city manager, elective at prominent. Together it comprise the seven-member legislative person. An appointive mayor serves when chief executive for city operations.

Media

Newspapers

A Traverse City [http://www.record-eagle.com Record-Eagle] occurs as day-after-day morning newspaper circulated witharound Long dozen counties in nor'-west moo Michigan. These are the just newspaper inside northern Michigan to make a Sunday edition. These are owned by Ottaway Newspapers Inc., the community newspaper subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co.

Day-after-day editions of the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, and Grand Rapids Press also are available in newsstands throughout a region. [http://www.northernexpress.com/ Northern Express Weekly] is the big every week newspaper withinside Northern Michigan, by owning distribution of as much as 30,000 copies in Long dozen counties. These are owned & published by George Foster & Robert Downes.

Television
Traverse City has deuce tv station licensed directly to the city: Channel Vii: WPBN, NBC Channel Xxix: WGTU, ABC

Additionally, the city has a rebroadcast transmitter of Mount Pleasant's PBS affiliate WCMU, operating in channel 46.

Stations accredited to Cadillac can also become viewed in the area: Channel Niner: WWTV, CBS Channel 33: WFQX, FOX

Cable television service is provided within Traverse City & numerous outlying communities by Charter Communications Inc. Public access programming is provided on channel Two.

Tourism
A National Cherry Festival, held about July 4 every year is the independent tourer draw to Traverse City. A festival features parades, pyrotechnic, survive music, &, naturally, cherries.

Traverse City is likewise the popular destination for yachting, sailing, wine and tourists wishing to watch outstanding fall colourize bus-caused "color tours."

In the Leelanau Peninsula region, one attraction is the Leelanau Sands Casino in Peshawbestown, Michigan. A Leelanau peninsula is the little finger of the mitten-shaped southern portion of Michigan.

A initiative Traverse City Film Festival was held July 27–31, 2005, in venues in the arethe of downtown Traverse City, including a theater renovated by film festival volunteers. Number one-start feature & infotainment come existence screened, panel discussions come planned & loose personal flick at a Open Space come scheduled. The thrust of the Traverse City Film Festival is Oscar-winning film maker Michael Moore.

Health

Munson Medical Center is a regional referral center, serving patients from 32 counties within northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. It has 368 inpatient beds, and about 350 physicians representing 40 specialties. Twenty-4-hour emergency care is available on places, & its Northward Flight EMS provides helicopter, fixed-wing aircraft and ground ambulance services throughout northern Michigan.

Munson Medical Center is repeatedly ranked among a Top Century Hospitals by Solucient, which maintains the united states's big health care database. Transportation

Using the newly terminal completed around 2004, Cherry Capital Airport, provides regularly scheduled rider airline service to Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, when well as little Michigan destinations north.

Adjacent to the airdrome occurs as United States Coast Guard air station (CGAS), responsible for two maritime & land-depending search and rescue operations in the northern Great Lakes region.

A city occurs as junction point for many main road: U.S. Highway 31 cuts west across the base of the Leelanau peninsula to Benzonia before continuing south to Manistee and other points on the Lake Michigan shore. To a north, it continues along the east shore of Grand Traverse Bay to Charlevoix and Petoskey, ending just prior to reaching Mackinaw City and the Mackinac Bridge. Michigan State Highway 37 runs almost due south through the Manistee National Forest to Grand Rapids. It continues northerly higher Old Mission Peninsula to prevent at Old Mission Point in the midst of Grand Traverse Bay. Michigan State Highway 72 runs east-west, connecting with Empire and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 22 mile west and with U.S. Highway 131, 25 miles east. Michigan State Highway 22 follows the Flow of any stream Michigan shoreline as much as the Leelanau Peninsula, providing a pleasant, scenic cause.

Schools and Colleges
Community Colleges Northwestern Michigan College Technical Centers Traverse Bay Area Career-Tech Center High Schools Central High School West Senior High Traverse City High School (alternative high) Saint Francis High School (non-public Catholic)

Trivia

Birthplace of: Mark Brammer (1958- ), Michigan State University footbCompletely player; All-Our contries - 1978. Dan Majerle (1965), former NBA player (Phoenix Suns and Miami Heat) Kenny Oleson (1971), guitarist for Pop artist Kid Rock William G. Milliken (1922), Republican Governor of Michigan (1969-1983) Martha Teichner (????), CBS News correspondent Barry Watson (1974), actor, 7th Heaven David Wayne (1914-1995), Hollywood and Broadway actor

Pop singer, Jewel, performed in local coffee bar when attending highschool at a nearby Interlochen Center for the Arts.