Types of Zoning. Zoning categories and symbols vary among communities. A C-1 zone in one city is not necessarily the same as a C-1 in another. Typically, jurisdictions use letters of the alphabet as code abbreviations to identify the use allowed in a physical geographic area -- such as R for residential, C for commercial, and I for industrial.
Compared to the rest of the country, Abilene's cost of living is 17.30% Lower than the U.S. average. POPULATION. As of 2014, Abilene's population is 118,484 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 4.71 percent.
In a census of the state for 1848 the total population was given as 158,356, of whom 42,455 were slaves. The first United States census was taken in 1850, when the Texas population comprised 154,034 whites, 397 free Negroes, and 58,161 slaves.The second United States census in 1860 gave Texas a population of 604,215.etween 1870 and 1880 the population of Texas increased 94.5 percent to reach a total of 1,591,749. The census for 1900 ranked Texas sixth in the United States, with 3,048,710 residents. Each decade showed an increase in population; in 1930 Texas ranked fifth in population with 5,824,715.