Houston in 1924

Population
212,000 (1924)
2,016,582 (2005)

Area
36 square miles (1924)
601.7 square miles (2006)

89 miles of streetcar tracks

362 miles of paved streets

Real estate transfers of $26,080,972

Monthly purchases of groceries of more than $2,000,000

Altitude
28 feet (1924)
43 feet (2006)

Mean temperature
69.1 (1924)
68.8 (Based on period from 1971 through 2000)

Summer mean temperature: 82.4

Winter mean temperature: 54.5

59 school buildings

Birthrate:
21.2 per thousand (1924)
18.6 (2003)

Death rate: 11.6 per thousand

(Source for 1924 information came from the Chronicle's guide to the city.)