Asheville occurs as city located in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and is its county seat. When of the 2000 census, the city got the number people of 68,889. These are a big city within american North Carolina, and continues to develop - when of 2004, a Census Bureau estimates that Asheville's population is 70,400.

Attractive to hip & originative immature population too when to hip & originative retired person, Asheville has been utilized inside each Rolling Stone and Modern Maturity as an ideal place to survive or even visit. A open & accepting character of the city is evidenced per numbers of lifestyles & beliefs that coexist peacefully there. the art scene is especially active & Asheville has get a mecca for thrower, painters & musicians, using lot of the todays creative thinking inspired per folk art & old ballads of early Scottish, English and Scots-Irish settlers. Since a publication of Joshua P. Warren's book Haunted Asheville, in 1996, paranormal investigators from the around the world have flocked to the city's famed mysterious sites like Helen's Bridge and Barley's Taproom and Pizzeria.

Asheville is front yard to University of North Carolina at Asheville, or [http://www.uncthe.edu/ UNCA], a liberal arts college of astir 3500 students & section of the [http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/system/index.php University of North Carolina System].

A city is page to the [http://www.fbfc.com French Broad Food Coop], besides when a Asheville Community Resource Center.

General Information
Asheville is placed at a confluence of the Swannanoa River and the French Broad River. A French Broad continues northwest through the Appalachian Mountains to Knoxville in Tennessee. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville's weather condition resembles a weather of the rest of the southeastern U.S., but with somewhat cooler temperatures due to the higher altitude. Inside wintertime, temperatures will fall into a teens, & Asheville near universally receives snow & freezing rain a few times from each one month.

A city is better known for the shower Biltmore Estate, which attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every season. More luminary architecture in Asheville includes its art deco city hall and more unique buildings in the downtown vicinity. A Montford front yard & more central areas come considered historic dominion & include several Victorian houses. Asheville & a circumferent mountains come too highly popular inside the fall after fall foliage peaks in October. A scenic Blue Ridge Parkway runs through a Asheville area & the evidence of Biltmore Estate. Biltmore Village is a section of the city adjacent to the estate, in which workers stayed in the period of its construction. These are presently residence to numbers of little voguish shops. Creator Thomas Wolfe was born around Asheville. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald lived and worked in Asheville during some of his literary career. His married woman, Zeldthe, died witharound a fire around an Asheville sanatarium in 1948. Within 1978, a acclaimed film Being There, which starred Peter Sellers and was directed by Hal Ashby, was filmed in Asheville.

Within 2005 alleged bomber Eric Robert Rudolph was transported to Asheville from Murphy, North Carolina for arraignment in federal court. Inside September 2004, major swollen was reported around town, particularly at Biltmore Village, due to rains from either a remnants of Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Ivan.

Asheville is served by ii regional plaza, Asheville Mall and Biltmore Square Mall. Asheville is served by Asheville Regional Airport in nearby Fletcher, North Carolina, and by Interstate 40, Interstate 240, and Interstate 26.

The city is home to the Asheville Tourists baseball club of the South Atlantic League.

Geography
Asheville is located at 35°34'48" North, 82°33'21" West (35.579862, -82.555810).

According to the km² (41.3 mi²). 106.0 km² (40.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.94% water.

Demographics
As of the censusof 2000, there are 68,889 people, 30,690 households, and 16,726 families residing in the city. The population density is 650.0/km² (1,683.4/mi²). There are 33,567 housing units at an average density of 316.7/km² (820.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 77.95% White, 17.61% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.92% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.53% from other races, and 1.58% from two or more races. 3.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 30,690 households out of which 22.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.1% are married couples living together, 13.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 45.5% are non-families. 36.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.14 and the average family size is 2.81.

In the city the population is spread out with 19.6% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $32,772, and the median income for a family is $44,029. Males have a median income of $30,463 versus $23,488 for females. The per capita income for the city is $20,024. 15.5% of the population and 10.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 20.9% of those under the age of 18 and 10.1% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Several ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Asheville in honor of this town.

Asheville has several sister cities worldwide, including:

Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Saumur, Arrondissement de Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France Karpenisi, Evritania, Sterea Ellada, Greece

Education

Asheville and its surrounding area is home to several institutions of higher education.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical College University of North Carolina at Asheville Mars Hill College Montreat College Warren Wilson College