Cape Girardeau County

administration
Cape Girardeau County Courthouse
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Jackson
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 1 Barton Square Jackson, MO 63755-1878
Foundation :	October 1, 1812
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 573
Demographics
Residents :	75,674 (2010)
Population density :	50.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1518 km²
Water surface :	20 km²
map

Website : www.capecounty.us

The Cape Girardeau County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 75,674 residents and a population density of 50.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Jackson .

geography

The county is located in southeast Missouri on the border with Illinois , which is formed by the Mississippi River . Cape Girardeau County has an area of 1518 square kilometers, of which 20 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following neighboring counties:

	Perry County	Union County (Illinois)
Bollinger County		Alexander County (Illinois)
	Stoddard County	Scott County

history

Cape Girardeau County was formed as the original county on October 1, 1812. It was named after the original French name for this area, which also survived the interim Spanish rule.

57 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 5, 2018).

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1810	3888	-
1820	5968	53.5%
1830	7445	24.7%
1840	9359	25.7%
1850	13,912	48.6%
1860	15,547	11.8%
1870	17,558	12.9%
1880	20,998	19.6%
1890	22,060	5.1%
1900	24,315	10.2%
1910	27,621	13.6%
1920	29,839	8th %
1930	33,203	11.3%
1940	37,775	13.8%
1950	38,397	1.6%
1960	42,020	9.4%
1970	49,350	17.4%
1980	58,837	19.2%
1990	61,633	4.8%
2000	68,693	11.5%
2010	75,674	10.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000–2010

The Bill Emerson Bridge over the Mississippi , near Cape Girardeau

Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas , listed in the NRHP

B'Nai Israel Synagogue , listed in the NRHP

According to the 2010 census , Cape Girardeau County had 75,674 people in 28,948 households. The population density was 50.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.40 people lived in each of the 28,948 households.

The racial the population was composed of 88.7 percent white, 7.0 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.0 percent of the population.

21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 44,416 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,229. 14.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in Cape Girardeau County

Citys

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

former settlement

Arnsberg

^{1 - to a small extent in Scott County

2 - mostly in Scott County}

structure

Cape Girardeau County is divided into ten townships :

^{Apple Creek}

^Shawnee

^Randol

^{Cape
Girardeau}

^Hubble

^What

^Liberty

^children

^{White
water}

^Byrd

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Apple Creek Township	2100	29-01450
Byrd Township	18,646	29-10234
Cape Girardeau Township	40,563	29-11260
Hubble Township	1861	29-33454
Children's township	1158	29-38702