Carroll County, Tennessee

administration
The Carroll County Courthouse in Huntingdon
US state :	Tennessee
Administrative headquarters :	Huntingdon
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 29 Huntingdon, TN 38344-0029
Foundation :	November 7, 1821
Made up from:	Chickasaw land
Area code :	001 731
Demographics
Residents :	28,522 (2010)
Population density :	18.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1554 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

The Carroll County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Tennessee . In 2010 the county had 28,522 residents and a population density of 18.4 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Huntingdon , named after Mimican Hunt , an early settler who provided the land for the city's establishment.

geography

The county is located in the mid-northwest, about 60 km north of Kentucky , and has an area of 1,554 square kilometers, of which 2 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Carroll County:

Weakley County		Henry County
Gibson County		Benton County
Madison County	Henderson County	Decatur County

history

William Carroll

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	24,250	-
1910	23,971	-1.2%
1920	24,361	1.6%
1930	26,132	7.3%
1940	25,978	-0.6%
1950	26,553	2.2%
1960	23,476	-11.6%
1970	25,741	9.6%
1980	28,285	9.9%
1990	27,514	-2.7%
2000	29,475	7.1%
2010	28,522	-3.2%
1900-2000 2010

Carroll County was formed from Chickasaw Land on November 7, 1821. It was named after William Carroll (1788-1844), a general in the British-American War and six-time governor of Tennessee.

The McKenzie Depot is one of the county's six entries in the NRHP.

Six buildings in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of May 3, 2020).

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Carroll County had 28,522 people in 11,090 households. The population density was 18.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.5 people lived in each of the 11,090 households.

The racial the population was composed of 87.2 percent white, 10.5 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.1 percent of the population.

21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 36,160 USD . The per capita income was $ 19,712. 19.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.