Bacon County

administration
Bacon County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Alma
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Bacon County P.O. Box 356 Alma, Georgia 31510-0356
Foundation :	July 27, 1917
Area code :	001 912
Demographics
Residents :	11.096 (2010)
Population density :	15 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	741 km²
Water surface :	3 km²
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The Bacon County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Alma .

geography

The county covers an area of 741 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Appling County , Pierce County , Ware County , Coffee County, and Jeff Davis Counties .

history

The county was formed as the 149th county on July 27, 1917 and named after Augustus Bacon , who served four terms as a senator and died in his office.

Worth seeing

The still standing historical building Bacon County Courthouse , built in 1914, the Alma Depot and the Rabinowitz Building as well as the two nature reserves in the Bacon Area and Whitehead Creek Area .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1920	6460	-
1930	7055	9.2%
1940	8096	14.8%
1950	8940	10.4%
1960	8359	-6.5%
1970	8233	-1.5%
1980	9379	13.9%
1990	9566	2%
2000	10,103	5.6%
2010	11.096	9.8%
1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 11,096 inhabitants at that time were distributed among 4,214 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.56 people per household. There are a total of 4,801 households.

70.2% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.05 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 35.9% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 25.7% of all households.

27.7% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 26.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 26.6% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.0% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 37 years. 49.5% of the population were male and 50.5% were female.

78.6% of the population identified themselves as whites, 15.4% as African American , 0.2% as Indians and 0.3% as Asian Americans . 4.2% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.3% to several ethnic groups. 7.1% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 37,698 USD , while 20.4% of the population lived below the poverty line.