Fayette County, Georgia

administration
Fayette County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Fayetteville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Fayette County Administration 140 Stonewall Avenue W. Fayetteville, Georgia, 30214-1520
Foundation :	May 15, 1821
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 770
Demographics
Residents :	106,567 (2010)
Population density :	209 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	516 km²
Water surface :	6 km²
map

Website : www.fayettecountyga.gov

The Fayette County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Fayetteville .

geography

The county is located in central northwest Georgia, about 50 miles to the west from Alabama , and covers an area of 516 square kilometers, of which six square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Clayton County , Spalding County , Coweta County, and Fulton County .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Atlanta .

history

Fayette County was formed on May 15, 1821 as the 49th county in Georgia from parts of the land of the Creek Indians . It was named, like Fayetteville, after Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , a commander of George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. The Fayette County Courthouse County Courthouse in Fayetteville was built in 1825, just four years after the county and city were founded, and is the oldest surviving courthouse in Georgia.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	5504	-
1840	6191	12.5%
1850	8709	40.7%
1860	7047	-19.1%
1870	8221	16.7%
1880	8605	4.7%
1890	8728	1.4%
1900	10.114	15.9%
1910	10,966	8.4%
1920	11,396	3.9%
1930	8665	-24%
1940	8170	-5.7%
1950	7978	-2.4%
1960	8199	2.8%
1970	11,364	38.6%
1980	29,043	155.6%
1990	62,415	114.9%
2000	91,263	46.2%
2010	106,567	16.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 106,567 inhabitants at that time were distributed over 38,167 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.78 people per household. There are a total of 40,793 households.

79.4% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.15 people. Children under the age of 18 lived in 2.78% of all households and persons aged at least 65 in 3.15% of all households.

28.9% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 17.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 34.0% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.4% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 42 years. 48.3% of the population were male and 51.7% were female.

71.1% of the population identified themselves as whites, 20.1% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 3.9% as Asian Americans . 2.4% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 2.2% to several ethnic groups. 6.3% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 79,993 USD , while 8.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.