Defiance County

administration
Defiance County Courthouse
US state :	Ohio
Administrative headquarters :	Defiance
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 500 Court Street Defiance, OH 43512-2171
Foundation :	March 4, 1845
Made up from:	Henry County Paulding County Williams County
Area code :	001 419
Demographics
Residents :	39,037 (2010)
Population density :	36.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1073 km²
Water surface :	8 km²
map

Website : www.defiance-county.com

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

geography

The county is located almost in the extreme northwest of Ohio, borders Indiana to the west and has an area of 1073 square kilometers, of which eight square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Williams County , Henry County , Putnam County , Paulding County , Allen County, Indiana, and De Kalb County, Indiana.

history

Defiance County was formed on March 4, 1845 from parts of Henry Paulding and Williams Counties. It was named after Fort Defiance , which was built nearby in 1794 at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee Rivers .

Ten structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of April 13, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	6966	-
1860	11,886	70.6%
1870	15,719	32.2%
1880	22,515	43.2%
1890	25,769	14.5%
1900	26,387	2.4%
1910	24,498	-7.2%
1920	24,549	0.2%
1930	22,714	-7.5%
1940	24,367	7.3%
1950	25,925	6.4%
1960	31,508	21.5%
1970	36,949	17.3%
1980	39,987	8.2%
1990	39,350	-1.6%
2000	39,500	0.4%
2010	39,037	-1.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Defiance County's Age Pyramid

Defiance County's population was 39,500 as of the 2000 census . 605 of these people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 15,138 households and 11,020 families. The population density was 37 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 92.59 percent white, 1.75 percent African American, 0.26 percent Native American, 0.36 percent Asian, 0.02 percent from the Pacific island area and 3.59 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.43 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 7.23 percent of the population.

Of the 15,138 households, 34.3 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 58.9 percent were married couples living together, 9.6 percent were single mothers, 27.2 percent were non-families, 23.0 percent were single households and 9.5 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.02.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 26.5 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 9.2 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 27.4 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 23.9 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 12.9 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 97.3 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 94.9 men.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 44,938 , and the median income for a family is $ 50,876. Males had a median income of $ 37,936 versus $ 23,530 for females. The per capita income was $ 19,667. 4.5 percent of families and 5.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line. 6.4 percent of these were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 5.3 percent were people over 65 years of age.