Chattahoochee County

administration
Chattahoochee County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Cusseta
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Chattahoochee County P.O. Box 299 Cusseta, Georgia, 31805-0299
Foundation :	February 13, 1854
Made up from:	Marion County Muscogee County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	11,267 (2010)
Population density :	17.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	651 km²
Water surface :	6 km²
map

The Chattahoochee County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Cusseta .

geography

The county is in western Georgia and borders Alabama even to the west . It covers an area of 651 square kilometers, of which six square kilometers are water surface and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Talbot County , Marion County , Stewart County and Muscogee County .

The county is part of the Columbus metropolitan area .

history

Chattahoochee County was formed on February 13, 1854 from parts of Marion County and Muscogee County. It was named after the Chattahoochee River , which forms the western county boundary.

Others

Fort Benning Barracks , named after General Henry Lewis Benning , is located in Chattahoochee County and is the world's largest infantry barracks, also known as West Point of the South .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	5797	-
1870	6059	4.5%
1880	5670	-6.4%
1890	4902	-13.5%
1900	5790	18.1%
1910	5586	-3.5%
1920	5266	-5.7%
1930	8894	68.9%
1940	15,138	70.2%
1950	12,149	-19.7%
1960	13,011	7.1%
1970	25,813	98.4%
1980	21,732	-15.8%
1990	16,934	-22.1%
2000	14,882	-12.1%
2010	11,267	-24.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 11,267 inhabitants at that time were distributed among 2,686 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.98 people per household. There are a total of 3,376 households.

77.0% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.45 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 53.7% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 12.1% of all households.

33.6% of the population were younger than 20 years, 47.6% were 20 to 39 years old, 12.9% were 40 to 59 years old, and 5.9% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 24 years. 62.5% of the population were male and 37.5% were female.

68.8% of the population identified themselves as white, 18.8% as African-American , 0.7% as Native American and 2.2% as Asian Americans . 5.0% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 4.4% to several ethnic groups. 12.4% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 48,488 USD , while 9.0% of the population lived below the poverty line.