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Norcross is a city located in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. According to the 2010 census , the population was 9,116, [ 5 ] while in 2020, the population increased to 17,209. [ 6 ] Norcross is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area .
The average household size was 1.79 and the average family size was 2.30. In the city, the population was spread out, with 13.6% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 13.6% from 25 to 44, 35.6% from 45 to 64, and 32.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 53 years. For every 100 females, there were 84.4 males.
Norcross Roundabout is a major traffic roundabout in the English village of Thornton, Lancashire. It was built at the junction of the A585 , the B5268 Fleetwood Road South and Norcross Lane. [ 1 ] As of 2020, an average of 28,000 vehicles utilise the roundabout each day.
Buford Highway is an ethnically diverse, linear community made up of apartment complexes, suburban neighborhoods and shopping centers. Similar to other sun belt cities, immigrants who relocated to Atlanta in the 20th and 21st centuries went straight to the suburbs, where residential and commercial real estate was affordable and where many second-generation immigrant communities were already ...
Less than 1 mile (1.6 km) later is US 19/SR 400 (Hospitality Highway). To the southeast, it crosses over the Chattahoochee River on the Fulton–Gwinnett County border for a short while, before it enters Gwinnett County proper and the city of Peachtree Corners. Just to the west of Norcross, SR 140 meets SR 141 (Peachtree Industrial Boulevard).
As Jimmy Carter Boulevard was constructed in the 1970s, Norcross Tucker Road was split into North Norcross Tucker Road and South Norcross Tucker Road, and a portion of the road was incorporated into Jimmy Carter Boulevard. In 1981, Jimmy Carter Boulevard was designated as SR 141 Connector between Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Interstate 85 ...
In 1870 Thrasher moved northeast of the city along the Richmond and Danville Railroad and founded the town of Norcross, named after Thrasher's good friend, Jonathan Norcross, the fourth mayor of Atlanta. He was also elected the city's first mayor. [4] Thrasher quickly turned Norcross into a vacation destination with a resort hotel he built.
Paul Duke, which opened in 2018 with grades 9–11, with 1,390 prospective students as of August 2023, has a STEM focus. [5] Built for $38 million, it relieved Norcross High School; as of 2018 it only takes students in the Norcross High attendance zone, including areas of Peachtree Corners, and therefore is not yet a magnet school.