Dallas County, Texas

administration
Dallas County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Dallas
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Dallas County Courthouse 509 Main Street Dallas, TX 75202-3513
Foundation :	March 30, 1846
Made up from:	Nacogdoches County Robertson County
Area code :	001 214
Demographics
Residents :	2,368,139 (2010)
Population density :	1,039.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2353 km²
Water surface :	75 km²
map

Website : www.dallascounty.org

The Dallas County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Dallas .

geography

The county is northeast of the geographic center of Texas and is about 80 km to the north from the state of Oklahoma . It has an area of 2353 square kilometers, of which 75 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Collin County , Rockwall County , Kaufman County , Ellis County , Tarrant County, and Denton County .

history

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	2743	-
1860	8665	215.9%
1870	13,314	53.7%
1880	33,488	151.5%
1890	67.043	100.2%
1900	82,726	23.4%
1910	135,748	64.1%
1920	210,551	55.1%
1930	325,691	54.7%
1940	398,564	22.4%
1950	614.799	54.3%
1960	951.527	54.8%
1970	1,327,321	39.5%
1980	1,556,390	17.3%
1990	1,852,810	19%
2000	2,218,899	19.8%
2010	2,368,139	6.7%
1850-2010

Dallas County was formed on March 30, 1846 from parts of Nacogdoches County and Robertson County and the administrative organization was completed on July 10 of the same year. It was probably named after George M. Dallas , the 11th Vice President of the USA. Other possible namesake are the Texas Rangers Walter R. Dallas and James I. Dallas, the naval officer AJ Dallas, the Secretary of War and Treasury Alexander James Dallas or the early settler Joseph Dallas.

In 1861 the county's residents decided to go into secession . The county itself was spared the civil war, but about 1,300 men from the area fought in the army of the southern states .

Memorial to John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza .

Three places in the county have National Historic Landmark status , Dealey Plaza , Fair Park Texas Centennial Buildings, and Highland Park Shopping Village . 127 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of October 23, 2018).

Demographic data (2000)

As of the 2000 census , Dallas County had 2,218,899 people in 807,621 households and 533,837 families. The population density was 974 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 58.35 percent white , 20.31 percent African American , 0.56 percent American Indian , 3.98 percent Asian American , 0.06 percent Pacific islander and 14.04 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.70 percent were descended from two or more races . 29.87 percent of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

Dallas County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Of the 807,621 households, 35.1 percent had children or young people living with them. 46.9 percent were married couples living together, 14.1 percent were single mothers and 33.9 percent were non-families. 27.3 percent were single households and 5.9 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.34.

Aerial view of Joe Pool Lake and the Joe Pool Lake Dam

Dallas County District Jail

The former Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, listed on the NRHP with the number 76002019

The population was distributed among 27.9 percent under 18 years of age, 10.7 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 34.4 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 18.9 percent between 45 and 64 years of age and 8.1 percent were 65 years of age old or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 99.8 males and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 98.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 43,324 , and the median income for a family is $ 49,062. Males had a median income of $ 34,988 versus $ 29,539 for females. The per capita income was $ 22,603. 10.6 percent of families and 13.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

^ Dallas County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011

↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 682 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 78 .