Andrew County

administration
The Andrew County Courthouse in Savannah, listed on the NRHP since 1980
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Savannah
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 206 Savannah, MO 64485-0206
Foundation :	January 29, 1841
Made up from:	Platte County
Area code :	001 816
Demographics
Residents :	17,291 (2010)
Population density :	15.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1131 km²
Water surface :	3 km²
map

Website : www.andrewcounty.org

The Andrew County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 17,291 residents and a population density of 15.3 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Savannah , named after the city of the same name, Savannah , Georgia .

geography

The county is located almost in the far northwest of Missouri on the east bank of the Missouri River , which forms the border with Kansas . Parallel to the Missouri, the Platte River flows through the county, which flows into the Missouri a few kilometers above Kansas City further south . To the north, the Iowa border is around 50 km away. Andrew County covers an area of 1,131 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Andrew County:

	Nodaway County	Gentry County
Holt County		DeKalb County
Doniphan County, Kansas	Buchanan County

history

Andrew County was formed on January 29, 1841 on the area acquired by the Indians in the Platte Purchase . It was named after Andrew Jackson Davis , a lawyer and politician.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	9433	-
1860	11,850	25.6%
1870	15,137	27.7%
1880	16,318	7.8%
1890	16,000	-1.9%
1900	17,332	8.3%
1910	15,282	-11.8%
1920	14,075	-7.9%
1930	13,469	-4.3%
1940	13,015	-3.4%
1950	11,727	-9.9%
1960	11,062	-5.7%
1970	11,913	7.7%
1980	13,908	16.7%
1990	14,632	5.2%
2000	16,492	12.7%
2010	17,291	4.8%
1850-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010

As of the 2010 census , Andrew County had 17,291 people in 6,633 households. The population density was 15.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.55 people lived in each of the 6,633 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.4 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.7 percent of the population.

24.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 52,720 USD . The per capita income was $ 24,009. 8.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.