Montezuma, Georgia Montezuma, Georgia Montezuma City Hall in Montezuma Montezuma City Hall in Montezuma Location in Macon County and the state of Georgia Location in Macon County and the state of Georgia County Macon Montezuma is a town/city in Macon County, Georgia (ZIP code 31063).
The populace was 3,460 at the 2010 census, a decline of 13.5% since 2000. It is home to the armory of Bravo Company, 648th Engineers of the Georgia Army National Guard.
Montezuma was titled after the famous Aztec prestige by soldiers returning from the Mexican War (1846 48). It was incorporated in 1854. It is also home to a grow Mennonite community, because ten to fifteen Mennonite families moved from Virginia in the 1950s. These ten to fifteen families quickly became over 100 families sharing two to three common surnames: Yoder, Kaufman, and Overholt.
Boys will typically continue to learn their fathers' trade and girls will begin learning to sew and cook and are generally married by 18 to 20 years of age with parental consent per Georgia law. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.5 square miles (11.7 km ), of which, 4.5 square miles (11.7 km ) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ) of it (0.66%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,999 citizens , 1,501 homeholds, and 1,050 families residing in the city.
There were 1,501 homeholds out of which 34.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.7% were married couples living together, 29.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 30.0% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $23,022, and the median income for a family was $27,469.
About 21.8% of families and 25.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 45.1% of those under age 18 and 17.1% of those age 65 or over.
There are 2 schools in the Montezuma, Ga which have a combined architecture sharing only the lunching facility ( Macon County Middle & Macon County High School) and 1 in Oglethorpe, Ga (Macon County Elementary).
There are 2,026 students enrolled in the Macon County school systems as of July 31, 2006.
Macon County Elementary School has 979 students enrolled, Macon County Middle School has 447 students enrolled, and Macon County High School has 600 students enrolled.
As all schools in the State of Georgia are required to meet did not meet AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) for the 2006 seniors but met it the previous year with the 2005 seniors.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Municipalities and communities of Macon County, Georgia, United States
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