Grenada County

administration
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Grenada
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 1208 Grenada, MS 38902-1208
Foundation :	May 9, 1870
Made up from:	Carroll County Choctaw County Tallahatchie County Yalobusha County
Area code :	001 662
Demographics
Residents :	21,906 (2010)
Population density :	20 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1164 km²
Water surface :	71 km²
map

Website : www.grenadamississippi.com

The Grenada County is a county in the US state of Mississippi . The county seat is Grenada .

geography

The county is located in north-central Mississippi and has an area of 1164 square kilometers, of which 71 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Tallahatchie County	Yalobusha County
Leflore County		Calhoun County
	Carroll County , Montgomery County	Webster County

history

Grenada County was formed on May 9, 1870 from parts of Carroll, Choctaw, Tallahatchie- and Yalobusha Counties. It was named, like the district capital, after the island of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles .

15 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 1, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	10,751	-
1880	12,071	12.3%
1890	14,974	24%
1900	14,112	-5.8%
1910	15,727	11.4%
1920	13,607	-13.5%
1930	16.802	23.5%
1940	19.052	13.4%
1950	18,830	-1.2%
1960	18,409	-2.2%
1970	19,854	7.8%
1980	21,043	6%
1990	21,555	2.4%
2000	23,263	7.9%
2010	21,906	-5.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Age pyramid of Grenada County (as of 2000)

Grenada Bank , listed on the NRHP

Glenwild Plantation Managers House , listed on the NRHP

According to the 2000 census , Grenada County had 23,263 people in 8,820 households and 6,297 families. The population density was 21 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 57.92 percent white, 40.93 percent African American, 0.14 percent Native American, 0.34 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.13 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.52 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups were 0.62 percent of the population.

Of the 8,820 households, 33.9 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 48.9 percent were married couples living together, 18.6 percent were single mothers, and 28.6 percent were non-families. 25.3 percent of all households were single households and 10.6 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.09.

27.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 9.0 percent between 18 and 24, 27.5 percent between 25 and 44, 22.0 percent between 45 and 64 years old, and 14.4 percent were 65 years or older . The median age was 36 years. Statistically, for every 100 females there were 87.8 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 83.9 males.

The average income of a household amounted to 27,385 USD , for a family is 33,115 USD. Males had a median income of $ 28,969 versus $ 21,567 for females. The per capita income was $ 13,786. About 17.6 percent of families and 20.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line .