Coshocton County

administration
Coshocton County Courthouse, back side
US state :	Ohio
Administrative headquarters :	Coshocton
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 349 1/2 Main Street Coshocton, OH 43812-1510
Foundation :	January 31, 1810
Made up from:	Muskingum County Tuscarawas County
Area code :	001 740
Demographics
Residents :	36,901 (2010)
Population density :	25.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1470 km²
Water surface :	9 km²
map

Website : www.co.coshocton.oh.us

Coshocton County is a county in the state of Ohio in the United States . The county seat is Coshocton .

geography

The county is located just east of the geographic center of Ohio and has an area of 1,470 square kilometers, of which nine square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Holmes County , Tuscarawas County , Guernsey County , Muskingum County , Licking County, and Knox Counties .

history

Coshocton County was formed on January 31, 1810 from parts of Muskingum County and Tuscarawas County. It was named after a term used by the Delaware Indians , which means something like union of water or ferry .

19 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of April 12, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1820	7086	-
1830	11,161	57.5%
1840	21,590	93.4%
1850	25,674	18.9%
1860	25,032	-2.5%
1870	23,600	-5.7%
1880	26,642	12.9%
1890	26,703	0.2%
1900	29,337	9.9%
1910	30.121	2.7%
1920	29,595	-1.7%
1930	28,976	-2.1%
1940	30,594	5.6%
1950	31,141	1.8%
1960	32,224	3.5%
1970	33,486	3.9%
1980	36,024	7.6%
1990	35,427	-1.7%
2000	36,655	3.5%
2010	36.901	0.7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Age pyramid of Coshocton County

Walhonding River near Warsaw, Ohio

According to the 2000 census , Coshocton County had 36,655 people in 14,356 households and 10,164 families. The population density was 25 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 97.35 percent white , 1.09 percent African American , 0.17 percent American Indian , 0.32 percent Asian American , 0.03 percent Pacific islander and 0.20 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.84 percent were descended from two or more races . Hispanics or Latinos were 0.59 percent of the population .

Of the 14,356 households, 32.6 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 57.8 percent were married couples living together, 9.2 percent were single mothers, 29.2 percent were non-families, 25.4 percent were single households and 11.9 percent had people aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.01.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 26.2 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 7.8 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 27.4 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 24.0 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 14.7 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 95.5 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were statistically 92.7 men.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 34,701 , and the median income for a family is $ 41,676. Males had a median income of $ 31,095 versus $ 21,276 for females. The per capita income was $ 16,364. 7.0 percent of families and 9.1 percent of the population were below the poverty line. Of these, 10.4 percent were children or adolescents under the age of 18 and 9.1 percent were people over 65 years of age.