Camden County, Georgia

administration
Camden County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Woodbine
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Camden County Administration 200 East 4th Street P. O. Box 99 Woodbine, Georgia 31569
Foundation :	February 5, 1777
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 912
Demographics
Residents :	50,513 (2010)
Population density :	31 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2027 km²
Water surface :	395 km²
map

Website : www.co.camden.ga.us

The Camden County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Woodbine .

geography

The county is located in the extreme southeast of Georgia, borders the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Florida to the south and has an area of 2027 square kilometers, of which 395 square kilometers are water surface; it is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Charlton County , Brantley County, and Glynn County .

history

Camden County was formed as the second county in Georgia on February 5, 1777 as the original county. It was named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , an English Lord Chancellor .

Others

Camden County has a Navy submarine base that is also the home port of Trident-class nuclear-powered submarines .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1790	305	-
1800	1681	451.1%
1810	3941	134.4%
1820	4341	10.1%
1830	4578	5.5%
1840	6075	32.7%
1850	6319	4%
1860	5420	-14.2%
1870	4615	-14.9%
1880	6183	34%
1890	6178	-0.1%
1900	7669	24.1%
1910	7690	0.3%
1920	6969	-9.4%
1930	6338	-9.1%
1940	5910	-6.8%
1950	7322	23.9%
1960	9975	36.2%
1970	11,334	13.6%
1980	13,371	18%
1990	30,167	125.6%
2000	43,664	44.7%
2010	50,513	15.7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Lighthouse on Little Cumberland Island

According to the 2010 census, the then 50,513 inhabitants were distributed over 18,047 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.69 people per household. There are a total of 21,114 households.

74.6% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.09 people. There were children under the age of 18 in 40.8% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 18.5% of all households.

31.3% of the population were younger than 20 years, 30.6% were 20 to 39 years old, 25.5% were 40 to 59 years old, and 13.7% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 31 years. 50.6% of the population were male and 49.4% were female.

74.4% of the population identified themselves as whites, 19.4% as African American , 0.5% as Indians and 1.4% as Asian Americans . 1.3% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 3.0% to several ethnic groups. 5.1% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 52,799 USD , while 13.2% of the population lived below the poverty line.