Brantley County

administration
Brantley County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Nahunta
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Brantley County Administration P.O. Box 398 Nahunta, Georgia, 31553-0398
Foundation :	August 14, 1920
Made up from:	Charlton County Pierce County Wayne County
Area code :	001 912
Demographics
Residents :	18,411 (2010)
Population density :	16 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1159 km²
Water surface :	8 km²
map

Website : www.brantleycounty.org

The Brantley County is located in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Nahunta .

geography

The county is located in southeast Georgia, about 70 km to the southeast from the Atlantic Ocean and about 60 km to the south from the northern border of the US state Florida . It covers an area of 1,159 square kilometers, of which eight square kilometers are water and is bordered clockwise by Wayne County , Glynn County , Camden County , Charlton County , Ware County, and Pierce Counties .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Brunswick .

history

Brantley County was formed on August 14, 1920 from parts of Charlton County, Pierce County and Wayne County. It was named after Benjamin D. Brantley , a member of a distinguished family that later became Senator William Goodman Brantley .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1930	6895	-
1940	6871	-0.3%
1950	6387	-7%
1960	5891	-7.8%
1970	5940	0.8%
1980	8701	46.5%
1990	11,077	27.3%
2000	14,629	32.1%
2010	18,411	25.9%
1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 18,411 inhabitants were distributed over 6,885 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.66 people per household. There are a total of 8,086 households.

73.7% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.08 persons. Children under the age of 18 lived in XXX% of all households and persons aged at least 65 in XXX% of all households.

29.0% of the population were younger than 20 years, 24.3% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.6% were 40 to 59 years old, and 18.2% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 38 years. 49.9% of the population were male and 50.1% were female.

94.4% of the population identified themselves as whites, 2.9% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 0.2% as Asian Americans . 0.7% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.5% to several ethnic groups. 1.9% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 36,301 USD , while 20.9% of the population lived below the poverty line.