Ben Hill County

administration
Ben Hill County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Fitzgerald
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Ben Hill County 401 East Central Avenue Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750
Foundation :	July 31, 1906
Made up from:	Irwin County , Wilcox County
Area code :	001 229
Demographics
Residents :	17,634 (2010)
Population density :	27 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	658 km²
Water surface :	6 km²
map

Website : www.benhillcounty.com

The Ben Hill County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Fitzgerald .

geography

The county covers an area of 658 square kilometers, of which six square kilometers are water. It is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Telfair County , Coffee County , Irwin County , Turner County, and Wilcox Counties .

history

Ben Hill County was formed from Irwin and Wilcox Counties on July 31, 1906 and named after Benjamin Harvey Hill , a Confederate Senator and later a US Senator.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1910	11,863	-
1920	14,599	23.1%
1930	13,047	-10.6%
1940	14,523	11.3%
1950	14,879	2.5%
1960	13,633	-8.4%
1970	13,171	-3.4%
1980	16,000	21.5%
1990	16,245	1.5%
2000	17,484	7.6%
2010	17,634	0.9%
1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 17,634 inhabitants were distributed over 6,794 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.55 people per household. There are a total of 7,942 households.

69.6% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.07 people. There were children under the age of 18 in 36.5% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 27.0% of all households.

29.0% of the population were younger than 20 years, 24.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 26.8% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.8% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 37 years. 47.9% of the population were male and 52.1% were female.

59.2% of the population identified themselves as whites, 34.6% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 0.7% as Asian Americans . 3.8% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.3% to several ethnic groups. 5.8% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 30,643 USD , while 36.2% of the population lived below the poverty line.