Effingham County, Georgia

administration
Effingham County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Springfield
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Effingham County Administration 601 North Laurel Street Springfield, GA 31329
Foundation :	February 5, 1777
Made up from:	St. Matthew Parrish St. Philip Parrish
Area code :	001 912
Demographics
Residents :	52,250 (2010)
Population density :	42.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1250 km²
Water surface :	9 km²
map

Website : www.effinghamcounty.org

The Effingham County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Springfield .

geography

The county is located in east Georgia, borders South Carolina and is about 50 km from the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast . It covers an area of 1,250 square kilometers, of which nine square kilometers are water, and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Chatham County , Bryan County , Bulloch County, and Screven County .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Savannah .

history

Effingham County was formed on February 5, 1777 as the 4th County in Georgia and the Original County from the Parrishes of St. Matthew and St. Philip. It was named after Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham , an English nobleman.

The settlement of Ebenezer near Rincon, which has not been inhabited since 1855, was founded in 1734 and was the second settlement in Georgia.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1790	2424	-
1800	2072	-14.5%
1810	2586	24.8%
1820	3018	16.7%
1830	2924	-3.1%
1840	3075	5.2%
1850	3804	23.7%
1860	4755	25%
1870	4214	-11.4%
1880	5979	41.9%
1890	5599	-6.4%
1900	8334	48.8%
1910	9971	19.6%
1920	9985	0.1%
1930	10.164	1.8%
1940	9646	-5.1%
1950	9133	-5.3%
1960	10.144	11.1%
1970	13,632	34.4%
1980	18,327	34.4%
1990	25,687	40.2%
2000	37,535	46.1%
2010	52,250	39.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 52,250 inhabitants were distributed over 18,092 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.85 people per household. There are a total of 19,884 households.

78.2% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.22 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 43.6% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 19.4% of all households.

31.3% of the population were younger than 20 years, 26.0% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.7% were 40 to 59 years old, and 13.8% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 35 years. 49.8% of the population were male and 50.2% were female.

82.6% of the population identified themselves as white, 13.5% as African American , 0.3% as Native American and 0.8% as Asian Americans . 0.8% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.9% to several ethnic groups. 2.9% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 63,903 USD , while 10.5% of the population lived below the poverty line.