Dyer County

administration
The Dyer County Courthouse in Dyersburg, listed on the NRHP since 1991
US state :	Tennessee
Administrative headquarters :	Dyersburg
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 1360 Dyersburg, TN 38025-1360
Foundation :	October 15, 1823
Made up from:	Chickasaw land
Area code :	001 731
Demographics
Residents :	38,335 (2010)
Population density :	29 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1364 km²
Water surface :	41 km²
map

The Dyer County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Tennessee . In 2010 , the county had 38,335 residents and a population density of 29 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Dyersburg .

geography

The county is located in western Tennessee and borders - separated by the Mississippi River - on Arkansas and Missouri . It has an area of 1364 square kilometers, of which 41 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Dyer County:

Pemiscot County, Missouri	Lake County	Obion County
		Gibson County
Mississippi County (Arkansas)	Lauderdale County	Crockett County

history

Dyer County was formed from Chickasaw Land on October 16, 1823 . It was named after Robert Henry Dyer (1774-1836), an officer from Tennessee, who Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans and the Seminolenkriegen served.

The Bank of Dyersburg is one of eight entries for the county in the NRHP.

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

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	23,776	-
1910	27,721	16.6%
1920	29,983	8.2%
1930	31,405	4.7%
1940	34,920	11.2%
1950	33,473	-4.1%
1960	29,537	-11.8%
1970	30,427	3%
1980	34,663	13.9%
1990	34,854	0.6%
2000	37,279	7%
2010	38,335	2.8%
1900-2000 2010

As of the 2010 census , Dyer County had 38,335 people in 15,079 households. The population density was 29 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.48 people lived in each of the 15,079 households.

The racial the population was composed of 83.1 percent white, 14.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.7 percent of the population.

24.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 36,856 USD . The per capita income was $ 19,169. 20.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.