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{{Image|TallahasseeCityscape.png|right|450px|Downtown Tallahassee.}}
'''Tallahassee, Florida''' is the capital city of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Florida]]. It is the [[county seat]] and only incorporated municipality in [[Leon County, Florida|Leon County]]. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the [[Florida Territory]], in 1824. In 2022, the population was 201,731, and its metropolitan area had 385,145 people.


With a student population exceeding 70,000, Tallahassee is a [[college town]], home to [[Florida State University]], ranked the nation's 19th-best [[public university]] by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]];''<ref name="usnews.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/florida-state-university-1489|title=rankings|website=www.usnews.com|access-date=September 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910192538/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/florida-state-university-1489|archive-date=September 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Florida A&M University]], ranked the nation's best public [[historically black university]] by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'';<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2021/09/13/famu-repeats-nations-highest-ranked-hbcu-u-s-news-world-report-florida-a-m/8313998002/ | title=FAMU repeats as nation's highest ranked public HBCU by U.S. News & World Report }}</ref> and [[Tallahassee Community College]], a large [[state university|state college]] that serves mainly as a feeder school to Florida State and Florida A&M.<ref>{{cite web|title=Team, News, Projects {{!}} Tallahassee Investor Relations {{!}} BondLink|url=https://www.tallahasseebonds.com/tallahassee-bond-investors-fl/about/i478|access-date=June 15, 2020|website=www.tallahasseebonds.com}}</ref>
Tallahassee's terrain is hilly by Florida standards, being at the southern end of the [[Red Hills Region]], just above the [[Cody Scarp]]. The elevation varies from near sea level to just over {{convert|200|ft|m}}, with the state capitol on one of the highest hills in the city. The city includes two large lake basins, [[Lake Jackson (Tallahassee, Florida)|Lake Jackson]] and [[Lake Lafayette]], and borders the northern end of the [[Apalachicola National Forest]].
The flora and fauna are similar to those found in the mid-south and low country regions of [[South Carolina]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. The palm trees are the more cold-hardy varieties like the state tree, the ''[[Sabal palmetto]]''. Pines, magnolias, hickories, and a variety of oaks are the dominant trees. The [[live oak|Southern Live Oak]] is perhaps the most emblematic of the city.
The distribution of the population in 2020 was as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
|+'''Tallahassee city, Florida – Demographic Profile'''<br> (''NH = Non-Hispanic'')
!Race / Ethnicity
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Tallahassee city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=1600000US1270600&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Tallahassee city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=1600000US1270600&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2010
!% 2020
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|96,753
|94,095
|53.34%
|47.97%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|62,538
|67,503
|34.48%
|34.41%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|381
|398
|0.21%
|0.20%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|6,566
|8,665
|3.62%
|4.42%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|88
|100
|0.05%
|0.05%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Some Other Race]] alone (NH)
|373
|924
|0.21%
|0.47%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race/Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|3,331
|7,821
|1.84%
|3.99%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|11,346
|16,663
|6.26%
|8.49%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''181,376'''
|'''196,169'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|}
''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''
==Law, government and politics==
Tallahassee has traditionally been a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] city, but the party has been supported by different ethnic groups over time, with a major shift in the late 20th century. Leon County has voted Democratic in 24 of the past 29 presidential elections since 1904. But until the late 1960s, most African Americans were [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchised]] from the political system, dating from a new constitution and other laws passed by Democrats in Florida (and in all other Southern states) at the turn of the century. At that time, most African Americans were affiliated with the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], and their disenfranchisement resulted in that party being non-competitive in the region for decades. Subsequently, these demographic groups traded party alignments.
Since passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] and enforcement of constitutional rights for African Americans, voters in Tallahassee have elected black mayors and black state representatives.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/JHPcolumn/jhp102.pdf
|title=In Tallahassee
|magazine=Journal of Hispanic Philology
|volume=10
|number=2
|first=Daniel
|last=Eisenberg
|year=1986
|pages=97–101
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006090302/http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/JHPcolumn/jhp102.pdf |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|97}} It has become a city in the [[Southern United States|Southern U.S.]] that is known for [[Progressivism|progressive]] activism.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} This is likely due to the large student population that attends [[Florida State University]], [[Florida A&M University]], and [[Tallahassee Community College]]. In addition, in the realignment of party politics since the late 20th century, most of the African-American population in the city now support Democratic Party candidates.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/tallahasseecityflorida,US/PST045218|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Tallahassee city, Florida; UNITED STATES|website=www.census.gov|access-date=May 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511010343/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/tallahasseecityflorida,US/PST045218|archive-date=May 11, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://harvardpolitics.com/harvard/just-liberal-college-students/|title=Just How Liberal Are College Students? – Harvard Political Review|date=April 25, 2014|access-date=May 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511004915/https://harvardpolitics.com/harvard/just-liberal-college-students/|archive-date=May 11, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
As of December 2, 2018, there were 112,572 Democrats, 58,083 Republicans, and 44,007 voters who were independent or had other affiliations among the 214,662 voters in [[Leon County, Florida|Leon County]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leonvotes.org/|title=Home – Leon County Supervisor of Elections|website=www.leonvotes.org|access-date=December 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203060034/https://www.leonvotes.org/|archive-date=December 3, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Leon County's voter turnout percentage has consistently ranked among the highest of Florida's 67 counties, with a record-setting 86% turnout in the November 2008 general election. The county voted for [[Barack Obama]] in the presidential election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/elect/ |title=Leon Supervisor of Elections Office |website=Leoncountyfl.gov |access-date=August 2, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810152722/http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/elect/ |archive-date=August 10, 2014 }}</ref>
==Education==
Public schools belonging to universities
* [[Florida State University School]] ("Florida High") (K–12)
* [[Florida A&M University Developmental Research School]] (K–12)
===Florida State University===
[[Florida State University]] (commonly referred to as '''Florida State''' or '''FSU''') is an American [[public university|public]] [[space grant colleges|space-grant]] and [[sea grant colleges|sea-grant]] [[research university]]. Florida State is on a 1,391.54-acre (5.631 km2) campus in the state capital of Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the [[State University System of Florida]]. Founded in 1851, it is on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida.<ref name="The Argo of the Florida State College, Vol II, pg. 114">{{cite web | last = Meginniss | first = Benjamin A. | author2 = Winthrop, Francis B. | author3 = Ames, Henrietta O. | author4 = Belcher, Burton E. | author5 = Paret, Blanche | author6 = Holliday, Roderick M. | author7 = Crawford, William B. | author8 = Belcher, Irving J. | title = The Argo of the Florida State College | volume = II | publisher = The Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., Atlanta | year = 1902 | url = https://archive.org/stream/argo219011902flor#page/114/mode/2up | access-date = April 26, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160118141349/https://archive.org/stream/argo219011902flor#page/114/mode/2up | archive-date = January 18, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="SPT">{{cite news|title=FSU's age change: history or one-upmanship? |first=Barry |last=Klein |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=July 29, 2000 |url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/072900/State/FSU_s_age_change__his.shtml |access-date=July 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017154646/http://www.sptimes.com/News/072900/State/FSU_s_age_change__his.shtml |archive-date=October 17, 2012 }}</ref>
The university is classified as a [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|Research University with Very High Research]] by the [[Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Florida State University | work=Classifications | publisher=The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching | year=2013 | url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=134097 | access-date=April 26, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629183038/http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=134097 | archive-date=June 29, 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The university comprises 16 separate [[colleges]] and more than 110 centers, facilities, labs and institutes that offer more than 360 programs of study, including professional school programs.<ref name="Florida State University, FSU Departments">{{cite web | title=Colleges, Schools, Departments, Institutes, and Administrative Units | work=FSU Departments | publisher=Florida State University | date=April 26, 2013 | url=http://www.fsu.edu/departments/ | access-date=April 26, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430165557/http://www.fsu.edu/departments/ | archive-date=April 30, 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The university has an annual budget of over $1.7&nbsp;billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://learningforlife.capd.fsu.edu/bot/oct9_15.htm|title=Florida State University Board of Trustees Meeting|website=Learningforlife.capd.fsu.edu|access-date=November 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013202125/http://learningforlife.capd.fsu.edu/bot/oct9_15.htm|archive-date=October 13, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Florida State is home to Florida's only National Laboratory – the [[National High Magnetic Field Laboratory]] and is the birthplace of the commercially viable anti-cancer drug [[Taxol]]. Florida State University also operates The [[John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art]], the State Art Museum of Florida and one of the nation's largest museum/university complexes.<ref name="The Ringling">{{cite web|title=The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art |work=FSU Departments |publisher=The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art |date=April 26, 2013 |url=http://www.ringling.org/About2.aspx?id=930 |access-date=April 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517163624/http://www.ringling.org/About2.aspx?id=930 |archive-date=May 17, 2013 }}</ref>
The university is accredited by the [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]] (SACS). Florida State University is home to nationally ranked programs in many academic areas, including law, business, engineering, medicine, [[social policy]], film, music, theater, dance, visual art, [[political science]], [[psychology]], social work, and the sciences.<ref name="Florida State University Highlights and Rankings">{{cite web |url=http://www.fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html#human/ |title=Florida State University – College Highlights and Selected National Rankings |access-date=May 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516124513/http://www.fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html#human/ |archive-date=May 16, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Florida State University leads Florida in four of eight areas of external funding for the [[Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics|STEM]] disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html|title=FSU Highlights|work=fsu.edu|access-date=October 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017140700/http://www.fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html|archive-date=October 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
For 2022, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked Florida State as the 19th best public university in the United States and 55th among top national universities.<ref name="usnews.com"/>
===Florida A&M University===
Founded on October 3, 1887, [[Florida A&M University]] (commonly referred to as '''FAMU''') is a public, [[Historically black colleges and universities|historically black university]] and [[land-grant]] university that is part of the State University System of Florida and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. FAMU's main campus comprises 156 buildings spread over {{convert|422|acre|km2|sigfig=2}} on top of the highest geographic hill of Tallahassee. The university also has several satellite campuses, including a site in Orlando where its College of Law is located and sites in Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa for its pharmacy program. Florida A&M University offers 54 bachelor's degrees and 29 master's degrees. The university has 12 schools and colleges and one institute.
FAMU has 11 doctoral programs which include 10 PhD programs: chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, biomedical engineering, physics, pharmaceutical sciences, educational leadership, and environmental sciences. Top undergraduate programs are architecture, journalism, computer information sciences, and psychology. FAMU's top graduate programs include pharmaceutical sciences along with public health, physical therapy, engineering, physics, master's of applied social sciences (especially history and public administration), business and sociology.
===Tallahassee Community College===
[[Tallahassee Community College]] (TCC) is a member of the [[Florida College System]]. Tallahassee Community College is accredited by the [[Florida Department of Education]] and the [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]]. Its primary campus is on a 270-acre (1.092 km2) campus in Tallahassee. The institution was founded in 1966 by the [[Florida Legislature]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcc.fl.edu/404/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208094238/https://www.tcc.fl.edu/about_tcc|url-status=dead|title=Tallahassee Community College|archive-date=February 8, 2012|website=www.tcc.fl.edu}}</ref>
TCC offers [[Bachelor's of Science]], [[Associate of Arts]], [[Associate of Science]], and [[Associate's degree|Associate of Applied Sciences]] degrees. In 2013, Tallahassee Community College was listed 1st in the nation in graduating students with A.A. degrees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccweek.com/article-3461-associate-degree-certificate-producers-2013.html|title=Associate Degree & Certificate Producers, 2013|website=Ccweek.com|access-date=November 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517183755/http://ccweek.com/article-3461-associate-degree-certificate-producers-2013.html|archive-date=May 17, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> TCC is also the No. 1 transfer school in the nation to [[Florida State University]] and [[Florida A&M University]]. As of Fall 2015, TCC reported 38,017 students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/15267/urlt/FactBook2016.pdf |title=The Fact Book |access-date=April 5, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305114913/http://fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/15267/urlt/FactBook2016.pdf |archive-date=March 5, 2017  }}</ref>
In partnership with [[Florida State University]], and [[Florida A&M University]] Tallahassee Community College offers the ''TCC2FSU'', and ''TCC2FAMU'' program. This program provides guaranteed admission into Florida State University and Florida A&M University for TCC Associate in Arts degree graduates.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcc.fl.edu/Future/GoldenGuarantee/TCC2FSU/Pages/default.aspx|title=Library – Tallahassee Community College|website=Tcc.fl.edu|access-date=November 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403095911/https://www.tcc.fl.edu/Future/GoldenGuarantee/TCC2FSU/Pages/default.aspx|archive-date=April 3, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcc.fl.edu/academics/transfer-options/tcc2famu/|title=TCC2FAMU – Tallahassee Community College|website=www.tcc.fl.edu|access-date=May 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508012147/http://www.tcc.fl.edu/academics/transfer-options/tcc2famu/|archive-date=May 8, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Economy==
Companies based in Tallahassee include: [[Citizens Property Insurance Corporation]], the [[Municipal Code Corporation]], the [[State Board of Administration of Florida]] (SBA), the Mainline Information Systems,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mainline.com|title=Mainline – IT Solutions, Software, Managed Business Services|website=Mainline|access-date=November 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017130908/https://www.mainline.com/|archive-date=October 17, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and United Solutions Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unitedsolutions.coop|title=Core Processing for Credit Unions|website=Unitedsolutions.coop|access-date=November 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930010829/https://www.unitedsolutions.coop/|archive-date=September 30, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
According to Tallahassee's 2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.talgov.com/Uploads/Public/Documents/fm/cafr/21cafr.pdf |title=City of Tallahassee ACFR |website=Talgov.com |access-date=August 7, 2022 }}</ref> the top employers in the city are:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
! # of Employees in 2012
|-
| 1
| [[Florida|State of Florida]]
|style="text-align: right;"|26,042
|style="text-align: right;"|20,961
|-
|2
| [[Florida State University]]
|style="text-align: right;"|15,011
|style="text-align: right;"|13,501
|-
|3
| [[Tallahassee Memorial Hospital]]
|style="text-align: right;"|5,349
|style="text-align: right;"|3,060
|-
|4
| [[Leon County Schools|Leon County School Board]]
|style="text-align: right;"|4,300
|style="text-align: right;"|4,306
|-
|5
| City of Tallahassee
|style="text-align: right;"|2,856
|style="text-align: right;"|2,848
|-
|6
| [[Walmart]]
|style="text-align: right;"|2,655
|style="text-align: right;"|2,000
|-
|7
| [[Publix]]
|style="text-align: right;"|2,543
|style="text-align: right;"| n/a
|-
|8
| [[Florida A&M University]]
|style="text-align: right;"|1,749
|style="text-align: right;"|1,937
|-
|9
| [[Leon County, Florida|Leon County]]
|style="text-align: right;"|1,744
|style="text-align: right;"|1,783
|-
|10
| [[Tallahassee Community College]]
|style="text-align: right;"|1,475
|style="text-align: right;"|1,821
|-
|11
| [[Capital Regional Medical Center]]
|style="text-align: right;"|1,095
|style="text-align: right;"|1,122
|}
==References==
{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}
==External links==
{{Sister project links|wikt=no|v=no|n=no|q=no|special:Search/Tallahassee|b=no|voy=Tallahassee}}
*{{official website|http://www.talgov.com/}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130605044856/https://localconservationboard.org/ The Local Conservation District – Information on Natural Resources, and Panoramic Tours]
*[http://www.tallahassee.com/ The Tallahassee Democrat Newspaper]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060212115217/http://www.missionsanluis.org/ Mission San Luis]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050308231348/http://www.taltrust.org/select.htm Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation – Places to Discover]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091211213152/https://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ochlockonee_stmarks/ Ochlockonee River – St. Marks River Watersheds – Florida DEP]

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