Gulf County

administration
Gulf County Courthouse
US state :	Florida
Administrative headquarters :	Port St. Joe
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Gulf County Government 1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr., Boulevard Port St. Joe, FL 32456
Foundation :	June 6, 1925
Made up from:	Calhoun County
Area code :	001 850
Demographics
Residents :	15,863 (2010)
Population density :	11 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1928 km²
Water surface :	492 km²
map

Website : www.gulfcountygovernment.com

The Gulf County is a county in the state of Florida of the United States . The county seat is Port St. Joe .

history

Gulf County was formed on June 6, 1925 from parts of Calhoun County and named after the Gulf of Mexico on which it lies.

As early as 1836, the first Florida railroad was opened in the Florida Territory in the Gulf County area. The approximately 14 km long route opened by the Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad Company from St. Joseph, a now submerged settlement on St. Joseph Bay, to White City further inland was used to transport cotton .

geography

The county has an area of 1928 square kilometers, of which 492 square kilometers are water. It is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Bay County , Calhoun County , Liberty County, and Franklin County .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1930	3182	-
1940	6951	118.4%
1950	7460	7.3%
1960	9937	33.2%
1970	10.096	1.6%
1980	10,658	5.6%
1990	11,504	7.9%
2000	13,332	15.9%
2010	15,863	19%
1900–1990 2000 + 2010

As of the 2010 census , Gulf County had 15,863 people in 9,110 households. The population density was 11 people per square kilometer. Ethnically, the population was composed of 78.1% white, 18.7% African American , 0.4% American Indian and 0.3% Asian Americans . 0.8% were members of other races and 1.8% of different races. 4.3% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

In 2010 children under the age of 18 lived in 27.4% of all households and persons aged 65 or over lived in 34.2% of all households. 66.1% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring). The average household size was 2.33 people and the average family size was 2.83 people.

18.0% of the population were younger than 20 years, 27.8% were 20 to 39 years old, 31.3% were 40 to 59 years old, and 22.9% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 43 years. 59.8% of the population were male and 40.2% were female.

The median income for a household in the 39,535 USD , while 18.8% of the population lived below the poverty line.

In 2010, English was the mother tongue of 94.66% of the population, 4.50% spoke Spanish and 0.84% had another mother tongue.

Places in Gulf County

Gulf County towns and cities with 2010 census residents :

Cities :

Port St. Joe ( County Seat ) - 3,445 residents
Wewahitchka - 1,981 inhabitants

Time zones

The two time zones of
Gulf County

Gulf County is one of the few counties in the United States that is crossed by a time zone boundary. The boundary between the eastern (UTC − 5) and central (UTC − 6) time zones initially runs east along the Apalachicola River and continues south along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to the border of Bay County . This means that east time applies south of the canal and central time north of it.