Daviess County, Kentucky

administration
Daviess County Courthouse
US state :	Kentucky
Administrative headquarters :	Owensboro
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 212 St. Ann Street Owensboro, KY 42301-0000
Foundation :	January 14, 1815
Made up from:	Ohio County
Area code :	001 270
Demographics
Residents :	96,656 (2010)
Population density :	80.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1234 km²
Water surface :	36 km²
map

Website : www.daviessky.org

Daviess County is a county in the state of Kentucky in the United States . The county seat is Owensboro , named after Colonel Abraham Owen , killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe .

geography

The county is located in west central Kentucky, bordering Indiana to the north , separated by the Ohio River and has an area of 1,234 square kilometers, of which 36 square kilometers are water. In Kentucky, it is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Hancock County , Ohio County , McLean County, and Henderson County .

history

Daviess County was formed on January 14, 1815 from parts of Ohio County. It was named after Colonel Joseph Hamilton Daviess . In 1936, the last public execution by hanging in the USA was carried out here on the 23-year-old Black Rainey Bethea for the robbery and murder of an elderly white woman.

36 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of September 7, 2017).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1820	3876	-
1830	5209	34.4%
1840	8331	59.9%
1850	12,362	48.4%
1860	15,549	25.8%
1870	20,714	33.2%
1880	27,730	33.9%
1890	33,120	19.4%
1900	38,667	16.7%
1910	41,020	6.1%
1920	40,733	-0.7%
1930	43,779	7.5%
1940	52,335	19.5%
1950	57,241	9.4%
1960	70,588	23.3%
1970	79,486	12.6%
1980	85,949	8.1%
1990	87,189	1.4%
2000	91,545	5%
2010	96,656	5.6%
1830-1890 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Age pyramid of Daviess County (as of 2000)

As of the 2000 census , Daviess County had 91,545 people in 36,033 households and 24,826 families. The population density was 76 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 93.69 percent white, 4.35 percent African American, 0.13 percent Native American, 0.43 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.44 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.94 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.92 percent of the population.

Of the 36,033 households, 32.9 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 53.6 percent were married couples living together, 11.8 percent were single mothers, 31.1 percent were non-families, 27.1 percent were single households and 11.1 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.00 people.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 25.8 percent of residents under the age of 18, 9.0 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 28.4 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 23.0 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 13.8 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 92.6 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 88.3 men statistically.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 36,813 , and the median income for a family is $ 45,404. Males had a median income of $ 35,295 versus $ 21,971 for females. The per capita income was $ 18,739. 9.4 percent of families and 12.3 percent of the population were below the poverty line. Of these, 15.6 percent were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 11.4 percent were people over 65 years of age.