Caldwell County, Texas

administration
The Caldwell County Courthouse in Lockhart in the Caldwell County Courthouse Historic District , listed on the NRHP with number 78002902
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Lockhart (Texas)
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Caldwell County Courthouse P.O. Box 906 Lockhart, TX 78644-0906
Foundation :	1848
Made up from:	Bastrop County Gonzales County
Area code :	001 512
Demographics
Residents :	38,066 (2010)
Population density :	26.9 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1418 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

Website : www.co.caldwell.tx.us

The Caldwell County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Lockhart .

geography

The county is located southeast of the geographic center of Texas and has an area of 1,418 square kilometers, of which 4 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Travis County , Bastrop County , Fayette County , Gonzales County , Guadalupe County, and Hays County .

history

Caldwell County was formed on March 6, 1848 from parts of Bastrop County and Gonzalez Counties and the administrative organization was completed on August 7 of the same year. It was named after Mathew Caldwell (1798-1842), a soldier during the Texas Revolution and commander of the Texas Rangers .

Five buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of October 16, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	1329	-
1860	4481	237.2%
1870	6572	46.7%
1880	11,757	78.9%
1890	15,769	34.1%
1900	21,765	38%
1910	24,237	11.4%
1920	25.160	3.8%
1930	31,397	24.8%
1940	24,893	-20.7%
1950	19,350	-22.3%
1960	17,222	-11%
1970	21,178	23%
1980	23,637	11.6%
1990	26,392	11.7%
2000	32.194	22%
2010	38,066	18.2%
1850-2010 Caldwell County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The San Marcos River

As of the 2000 census , Caldwell County had 32,194 people in 10,816 households and 8,079 families. The population density was 23 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 70.13 percent white, 8.50 percent African American, 0.61 percent Native American, 0.34 percent Asian, 0.03 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 17.66 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.74 percent were descended from two or more races. 40.44 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 10,816 households, 37.0 percent had children or young people living with them. 56.0 percent were married couples living together, 13.3 percent were single mothers and 25.3 percent were non-families. 21.2 percent were single households and 9.4 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.28 people.

28.3 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 8.5 percent between 18 and 24, 29.8 percent between 25 and 44, 20.8 percent between 45 and 64 and 12.5 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 97.5 males, and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 92.7 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 36,573 , and the median income for a family is $ 41,300. Males had a median income of $ 29,295 versus $ 21,595 for females. The per capita income was $ 15,099. 10.4 percent of families and 13.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
^ Caldwell County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 39 .

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 16, 2018.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

^ Caldwell County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .