Gwinnett County

administration
Gwinnett County Courthouse in Lawrenceville, listed on NRHP No. 80001084
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Lawrenceville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Gwinnett County Administration 75 Langley Drive Lawrenceville, Georgia, 30046
Foundation :	December 15, 1818
Area code :	001 770
Demographics
Residents :	805,321 (2010)
Population density :	788.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1131 km²
Water surface :	110 km²
map

Website : www.co.gwinnett.ga.us

The Gwinnett County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Lawrenceville , named after the US naval officer James Lawrence .

geography

The county is located in north-central Georgia, about 130 km to the west from Alabama , about 100 km to the north from Tennessee and North Carolina, and to the northeast about 110 km from South Carolina . It has an area of 1131 square kilometers, of which 10 square kilometers are water surface. Gwinnett County is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Hall County , Barrow County , Walton County , Rockdale County , DeKalb County , Fulton County, and Forsyth Counties . The northwest boundary is formed by the Chattahoochee River .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Atlanta .

history

Gwinnett County was formed from Land of the Creek and Cherokee as the 42nd County of Georgia on December 15, 1818 . It was named after Button Gwinnett , one of the three signatories of Georgia's Declaration of Independence.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	13,289	-
1840	10,804	-18.7%
1850	11,257	4.2%
1860	12,940	15%
1870	12,431	-3.9%
1880	19,531	57.1%
1890	19,899	1.9%
1900	25,585	28.6%
1910	28,824	12.7%
1920	30,327	5.2%
1930	27,853	-8.2%
1940	29,087	4.4%
1950	32,320	11.1%
1960	43,541	34.7%
1970	72,349	66.2%
1980	166.903	130.7%
1990	352.910	111.4%
2000	588,448	66.7%
2010	805.321	36.9%
Before 1900 1900-1990

According to the 2010 census, the then 805,321 inhabitants were distributed over 268,519 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.98 people per household. There are a total of 291,547 households.

75.7% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.40 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 45.6% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 15.3% of all households.

31.6% of the population were younger than 20 years, 28.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.8% were 40 to 59 years old, and 11.0% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 34 years. 49.3% of the population were male and 50.7% were female.

53.3% of the population identified themselves as whites, 23.6% as African-Americans , 0.5% as Indians and 10.6% as Asian Americans . 8.9% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 3.1% to several ethnic groups. 20.1% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 60,329 USD , while 13.8% of the population lived below the poverty line.