Tualatin, Oregon Tualatin, Oregon Official seal of Tualatin, Oregon Tualatin /tu l t n/ is a town/city located primarily in Washington County in the State of Oregon.

The name of the town/city is taken from the Tualatin River, which flows along most of the city's northern boundary.

It is probably a Native American word meaning "lazy" or "sluggish" but possibly meaning "treeless plain" for the plain near the river or "forked" for its many tributaries. According to Oregon Geographic Names, a postal service with the spelling "Tualitin" was established November 5, 1869, and the spelling changed to "Tualatin" in 1915.

In 1853, Galbreath assembled the first bridge over the Tualatin river, and the town became known as Bridgeport.

It was incorporated as the City of Tualatin in 1913. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 80.4% White, 1.2% African American, 0.7% Native American, 3.5% Asian, 1.0% Pacific Islander, 8.9% from other competitions, and 4.2% from two or more competitions.

There were 10,000 homeholds of which 37.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 32.4% were non-families.

26.9% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 31% were from 25 to 44; 26.8% were from 45 to 64; and 7% were 65 years of age or older.

As of the census of 2000, there were 22,791 citizens , 8,651 homeholds, and 5,804 families residing in the city.

The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 86.89% White, 0.79% African American, 0.69% Native American, 3.62% Asian, 0.37% Pacific Islander, 4.84% from other competitions, and 2.81% from two or more competitions.

There were 8,651 homeholds out of which 39.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 54.1% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 32.9% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.2% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 35.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 5.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $55,762, and the median income for a family was $68,165.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.23 square miles (21.32 km2), of which 8.22 square miles (21.29 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Tualatin is home to a majority of Bridgeport Village ("Bridgeport"), an upscale shopping region that opened in early 2005. (The northern part of Bridgeport Village is in Tigard.) Built at the site of a former quarry, Bridgeport was designed to be reminiscent of an open-air European-style shopping experience.

There are many factories on the south side of town, including a large LAM Research plant that makes electrochemical deposition tools for manufacturing semiconductors. Knife manufacturers Kershaw Knives and CRKT are positioned in Tualatin.

Oregon Scientific, a manufacturer of consumer electronics products, is headquartered in Tualatin.

Tualatin has been used as a recording locale for Hollywood movies, including Thumbsucker, which was filmed at Tualatin High School.

The town/city of Tualatin falls incompletely under the jurisdiction of the Tigard-Tualatin School District.

This precinct contains 10 elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools.

Of these schools, five are actually positioned inside Tualatin town/city limits: Bridgeport Elementary School, Byrom Elementary School, Tualatin Elementary School, Hazelbrook Middle School, and Tualatin High School.

The town/city also includes Arbor School of Arts and Sciences, an autonomous K-8 school.

Tualatin High School Tualatin Elementary A small section of the town/city is part of the West Linn-Wilsonville School District.

Those students usually go to the same elementary, middle, and high schools: Stafford Primary, Athey Creek Middle School, and Wilsonville High School, in the order given.

The Portland Japanese School, a weekend Japanese educational program for Japanese people and Japanese Americans, holds its classes at Hazelbrook Middle School at Tualatin. The school began holding its classes there after the school opened in 1992. The school office is in Beaverton. Tualatin Life a monthly journal concentrated exclusively on news, history and human interest stories in Tualatin, Oregon.

United States Enumeration Bureau.

Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy Beaverton, Oregon 97005" and " Hazelbrook Middle School 11300 S.W.

Tualatin, Oregon 97062" "Every weekend, Tualatin's Hazelbrook Middle School becomes Portland Japanese School, where it's all math and language" (Archive) The Oregonian.

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