Grape Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tom Green County, Texas, United States. It is part of the San Angelo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Grape Creek had a population of 3,594.
Geography
Grape Creek is located at (31.581679, -100.547371). According to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has a total area of 17.2 square miles (44.6 km), all land. Prior to the 2010 census, the CDP lost area, reducing it to a total area of , all land as before.
History
Grape Creek CDP is on Grape Creek just north of U.S. Highway 87 and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway in north central Tom Green County. The area was populated as early as 1858, when the Butterfield Overland Mail established a Grape Creek station on the east bank of the east fork of Grape Creek near the present-day community. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031209103128/http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/butterfield/] The community was founded before 1900. In 1901, the community had a school for 26 pupils and one teacher, and by 1934, it had three elementary schools and a high school. State highway maps in 1936 showed the school, a church, a nearby cemetery, and scattered dwellings in the community. By the 1980s, the Grape Creek-Pulliam School was in operation, and the area had become the site of a new subdivision known as Grape Creek Community.
Demographics
Grape Creek first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2000 U.S. census.
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|2,569
|2,368
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,399
|81.87%
|75.08%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |66.75%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|12
|9
|style='background: #ffffe6; |28
|0.38%
|0.29%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.78%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|20
|9
|style='background: #ffffe6; |25
|0.64%
|0.29%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.70%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|3
|14
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7
|0.10%
|0.44%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.19%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|1
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.03%
|0.03%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.03%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|0
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13
|0.00%
|0.10%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.36%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|38
|44
|style='background: #ffffe6; |157
|1.21%
|1.40%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.37%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|495
|706
|style='background: #ffffe6; |964
|15.77%
|22.38%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |26.82%
|-
|Total
|3,138
|3,154
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,594
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Grape Creek had a population of 3,594. The median age was 39.8 years. 23.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 17.9% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 107.0 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 104.0 males age 18 and over.
There were 1,332 households in Grape Creek, of which 31.4% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 49.9% were married-couple households, 23.1% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 20.5% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 22.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. and home to the Grape Creek High School Eagles.
Footnotes
1 Texas Almanac 2008-2009 Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas entry
2 Handbook of Texas Online Grape Creek entry