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Facts about Houma

Houma is also known as: Houma.

Houma has been featured in movies like: Crazy in Alabama (1999).

And some of the notable people born here have been: Brandon Jacobs (american football player), Skyler Green (american football player), Jay Pennison (football player and actor), Richie Cunningham (american football player), and Clarence Verdin (american football player).

And featured attractions of Houma: Argyle, Blue Cliff College-Houma, South Louisiana Beauty College, Omega Institute of Cosmetology, and Unitech Training Academy-Houma.

Houma is the only city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and the largest principal city of the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's powers of government have been absorbed by the parish, which is now run by the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government. The population was 33,727 at the 2010 census, an increase of 1,334 over the 2000 tabulation of 32,393. Many unincorporated areas are adjacent to the city of Houma; the largest, Bayou Cane, is an urbanized area commonly referred to by locals as being part of Houma. It is not included in the city's census counts, and is a separate census-designated place. If the populations of the urbanized census-designated places were included with that of the city of Houma, the total would exceed 60,000 residents. The city was named after the historic Native American tribe of Houma people, believed to be related to the Choctaw. The United Houma Nation Tribe is recognized by the state of Louisiana, although it has not achieved federal recognition.Houma was rated as an "Affordable" city by Demographia's International Housing Survey.

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