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‘Cairo’ is a city that is located in Grady County, Georgia, United States. It is famously known as Syrup City” but bears no relationship with the Karo corn syrup at all or with the city of the same name in Egypt, as the syrup too is synonymous with the name of the city only.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.4 square miles (24.3km²), of which, 9.3 square miles (24.1km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.1km²) of it (0.53%) is water.

According to the census that was held in the year 2000, “ there were 9,239 people, 3,465 households and 2,456 families residing in the city. The population density was 992.0 people per square mile (383.2/km²). There were 3,898 housing units at an average density of 418.5/sqmi (161.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 51.30% African American, 43.99% White, 0.42% Native American, 0.57% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.80% from other races and 0.89% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.05% of the population.

There were 3,465 households out of which 34.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 24.7% had a female householder with no husband present and 29.1% were non-families. 25.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the city the population was spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64 and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 83.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.6 males.”

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