Bleckley County

administration
Bleckley County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Cochran
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Bleckley County 306 SE Second Street Cochran, Georgia 31014
Foundation :	July 30, 1912
Made up from:	Pulaski County
Area code :	001 478
Demographics
Residents :	13,063 (2010)
Population density :	23.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	568 km²
Water surface :	5 km²
map

Website : www.bleckley.org

The Bleckley County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Cochran .

geography

The county is roughly in the middle of Georgia and has an area of 568 square kilometers, of which five square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Laurens County , Dodge County , Pulaski County , Houston County, and Twiggs County .

history

Bleckley County was formed on July 30, 1912 as the 145th county from parts of Pulaski County and named after Logan Bleckley , a Georgia Supreme Court Justice.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1920	10,532	-
1930	9133	-13.3%
1940	9655	5.7%
1950	9218	-4.5%
1960	9642	4.6%
1970	10,291	6.7%
1980	10,767	4.6%
1990	10,430	-3.1%
2000	11,666	11.9%
2010	13,063	12%
1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 13,063 inhabitants were distributed over 4,660 inhabited households, which results in an average of 2.49 people per household. There are a total of 5,304 households.

69.7% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 2.99 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 33.2% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 28.9% of all households.

30.8% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 23.7% were 20 to 39 years old, 25.2% were 40 to 59 years old, and 20.4% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 36 years. 47.6% of the population were male and 52.4% were female.

70.1% of the population identified themselves as whites, 27.3% as African American , 0.1% as Indians and 0.8% as Asian Americans . 0.7% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.0% to several ethnic groups. 2.3% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 35,507 USD , while 25.9% of the population lived below the poverty line.