Dade County, Georgia

administration
Dade County Courthouse in Trenton, listed on NRHP No. 80001009
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Trenton
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Dade County Administration P.O. Box 613 Trenton, GA 30752-0613
Foundation :	December 25, 1837
Made up from:	Walker County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	16,633 (2010)
Population density :	36.9 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	451 km²
Water surface :	0 km²
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The Dade County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Trenton , named after the city of the same name in New Jersey .

geography

The county is in the extreme northwest, bordered by Tennessee to the north and Alabama to the west . It has an area of 451 square kilometers, has no significant water surface and borders on Walker County to the southeast .

The county is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area .

history

Dade County was formed on December 25, 1837 as the 91st County in Georgia from parts of Walker County. It was named after Francis Langhorne Dade of Virginia , a major who was killed in fighting with the Seminoles in 1835.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	1364	-
1850	2680	96.5%
1860	3069	14.5%
1870	3033	-1.2%
1880	4702	55%
1890	5707	21.4%
1900	4578	-19.8%
1910	4139	-9.6%
1920	3918	-5.3%
1930	4146	5.8%
1940	5894	42.2%
1950	7364	24.9%
1960	8666	17.7%
1970	9910	14.4%
1980	12,318	24.3%
1990	13,147	6.7%
2000	15,154	15.3%
2010	16,633	9.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 16,633 inhabitants were distributed over 6,291 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.49 people per household. There are a total of 7,305 households.

70.9% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 2.96 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 31.6% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 27.6% of all households.

26.1% of the population were younger than 20 years, 25.0% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.4% were 40 to 59 years old, and 20.6% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 39 years. 49.3% of the population were male and 50.7% were female.

96.0% of the population identified themselves as whites, 0.9% as African-Americans , 0.4% as Indians, and 0.7% as Asian Americans . 0.7% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.3% to several ethnic groups. 1.8% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 44,992 USD , while 13.7% of the population lived below the poverty line.