15 Facts About Fort Bend County

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Fort Bend County is a county located in the U S state of Texas.

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Fort Bend County is included in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area.

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Fort Bend County was created from parts of Austin, Harris, and Brazoria Counties in 1838.

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Fort Bend developed a plantation economy based on cotton as the commodity crop.

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Since the 1970s, Fort Bend County has been attracting people from all ethnic backgrounds.

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Fort Bend County has the highest percentage of Asian Americans in the Southern United States; the largest groups are of Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, and Filipino ancestry.

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In 2020 Fort Bend County had the highest percentage of Asian Americans of any county in Texas.

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Fort Bend County ranked in the top 100 in property taxes paid and percentage of taxes of income.

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Decades, Fort Bend County was a stronghold for the Democratic Party, having achieved disenfranchisement of Blacks at the county level in 1889 in the aftermath of the Jaybird–Woodpecker War.

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Richard Nixon narrowly carried the county in 1968, making it the only county in greater Houston outside of Harris Fort Bend County to go Republican that year, and carried it again in 1972.

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Today, Fort Bend County is often considered a swing county, with election results usually tilting more Democratic than statewide results, which almost always favor Republicans nowadays.

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In contrast to greater Houston in general, Fort Bend County's economy is more diverse, with numerous service-sector jobs in healthcare, energy, education, hospitality, and other areas.

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Fort Bend County is a major service area for the Houston Chronicle, which provides separate local coverage for the Sugar Land and Katy areas.

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Fort Bend County is within the primary service area of George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

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Fort Bend County officially created a department of public transportation in 2005 that provides commuter buses to Uptown, Greenway Plaza, and Texas Medical Center.

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