Garland County

administration
Garland County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Hot springs
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 501 Ouachita Avenue Hot Springs, AR 71901-5154
Foundation :	April 5, 1873
Made up from:	Saline County
Area code :	001 501
Demographics
Residents :	96,024 (2010)
Population density :	54.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1903 km²
Water surface :	149 km²
map

Website : www.garlandcounty.org

The Garland County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . At the 2010 census , the county had 96,024 people and a population density of 54.7 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Hot Springs .

geography

The county is west of the geographic center of Arkansas and has an area of 1903 square kilometers, of which 149 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Yell County	Perry County
Montgomery County		Saline County
	Hot Spring County

history

A. Garland

Garland County was formed on April 5, 1873 from parts of Saline County. It was named after Augustus Hill Garland , an Arkansas governor, US senator, and attorney general.

The first settlers: As early as 1807, Jean Pierre Emanuel Prudhomme , the ailing owner of a plantation on the Red River, heard about the hot medicinal water from Indians. He built the first real settlement near the springs and lived there for two years. Isaac Cates and John Percival, two trappers from Alabama, joined him. Cates was primarily a trapper, but Percival envisioned a bright future for the area and built log houses to rent out to the springs' increasing numbers of visitors.

In 1828 Ludovicus Belding came with his wife and children to visit the hot springs. After a few months he built a small hotel for visitors to the springs.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	9023	-
1890	15,328	69.9%
1900	18,773	22.5%
1910	27,271	45.3%
1920	25,785	-5.4%
1930	36,031	39.7%
1940	41,664	15.6%
1950	47.102	13.1%
1960	46,697	-0.9%
1970	54,131	15.9%
1980	70,531	30.3%
1990	73.397	4.1%
2000	88,068	20%
2010	96,024	9%
1880-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010 Garland County Age Pyramid (2000)

Garland County's population was 88,068 as of the 2000 census . 1,861 of these people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 37,813 households and 25,259 families. The population density was 50 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 88.85 percent white, 7.80 percent African American, 0.61 percent Native American, 0.50 percent Asian, 0.03 percent from the Pacific island area and 0.72 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.49 percent are descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups were 2.56 percent of the population.

Of the 37,813 households, 25.1 percent had children or adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. 53.2 percent were married couples living together, 10.1 percent were single mothers, 33.2 percent were non-families. 28.8 percent of all households were single households and 13.5 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.78 people.

21.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 7.3 percent between 18 and 24, 25.2 percent between 25 and 44, 25.1 percent between 45 and 64 and 21.2 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 42 years. Statistically, there were 94.4 males for every 100 females and an average of 90.8 males for every 100 females aged 18 and over.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 31,724 , and the median income for a family is $ 38,079 . Males had a median income of $ 28,117 versus $ 20,421 for females. The per capita income was $ 18,631. 10.5 percent of families and 14.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.