Berrien County, Georgia

administration
Berrien County Courthouse in Nashville, listed on NRHP No. 77000409
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Nashville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Berrien County P.O. Box 446 Nashville, Georgia 31639
Foundation :	February 25, 1856
Made up from:	Coffee County , Irwin County Lowndes County
Area code :	001 229
Demographics
Residents :	19,286 (2010)
Population density :	16.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1186 km²
Water surface :	14 km²
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The Berrien County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Nashville .

geography

The county is located in southern Georgia and has an area of 1,186 square kilometers, of which 14 square kilometers are water. It is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Coffee County , Atkinson County , Lanier County , Lowndes County , Cook County , Tift County, and Irwin Counties .

history

John Macpherson Berrien

The Berrien County was formed on February 25, 1856 from parts of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties and named after John MacPherson Berrien , a US Senator who was attorney general under President Andrew Jackson . The county had one of the first postal routes in the United States, Coffee Road. It was opened in 1823 and extended to Florida .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	3475	-
1870	4518	30%
1880	6619	46.5%
1890	10,694	61.6%
1900	19,440	81.8%
1910	22,772	17.1%
1920	15,573	-31.6%
1930	14,646	-6%
1940	15,370	4.9%
1950	13,966	-9.1%
1960	12,038	-13.8%
1970	11,556	-4%
1980	13,525	17%
1990	14,153	4.6%
2000	16,235	14.7%
2010	19,286	18.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 19,286 inhabitants at that time were distributed among 7,443 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.57 people per household. There are a total of 8,709 households.

70.6% 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. Children under the age of 18 lived in 35.5% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 26.5% of all households.

28.3% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 24.6% were 20 to 39 years old, 27.3% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.9% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 38 years. 49.3% of the population were male and 50.7% were female.

84.7% of the population identified themselves as whites, 10.7% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 0.4% as Asian Americans . 2.6% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.3% to several ethnic groups. 4.6% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 31,812 USD , while 25.3% of the population lived below the poverty line.