Hamilton County (Ohio)

administration
Hamilton County Courthouse
US state :	Ohio
Administrative headquarters :	Cincinnati
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 138 East Court Street Cincinnati, OH 45202-0000
Foundation :	January 2, 1790
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 513
Demographics
Residents :	802.374 (2010)
Population density :	760.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1069 km²
Water surface :	14 km²
map

Website : www.hamilton-co.org

Hamilton County is a county in the US state of Ohio of the United States . The county seat is Cincinnati .

geography

The county is located in the extreme southwest of Ohio, borders Indiana to the west, Kentucky to the south and has an area of 1,069 square kilometers, of which 14 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Butler County , Warren County , Clermont County , Boone County, Kentucky, Kenton County, Kentucky, Campbell County, Kentucky, and Dearborn County, Indiana.

history

Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton County was formed as the original Free Territory County on January 2, 1790. It was named after Alexander Hamilton , a North American politician, statesman, and the first United States Treasury Secretary.

Historical objects

Cincinnati

1326 on Hopple Street is the historic Eighteenth District School (also known as Camp Washington Public School ). The building was included as a memorial in the NRHP in 1980 (NRHP 80003051).

In the Cincinnati area stands the historically covered Jediah Hill Covered Bridge . The road bridge, built in 1850, is located about seven miles north of the Cincinnati metropolitan area off US Route 127 on Covered Bridge Road . The wooden bridge was listed on March 28, 1973 by the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic Monument with the number 73001460.

In Cincinnati, at 3023-3025 Madison Road , is the historic Twentieth Century Theater .

The William Howard Taft National Historic Site is located at 2038 on Auburn Avenue . The National Historic Site now functions as a park and museum.

A total of 15 places in the county have the status of a National Historic Landmark . 350 buildings and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places (as of April 5, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1800	15,692	-
1810	15,258	-2.8%
1820	31,764	108.2%
1830	52,317	64.7%
1840	80.145	53.2%
1850	156,844	95.7%
1860	216.410	38%
1870	260,370	20.3%
1880	313,374	20.4%
1890	374.573	19.5%
1900	409.479	9.3%
1910	460.732	12.5%
1920	493,678	7.2%
1930	589.356	19.4%
1940	621.987	5.5%
1950	723,952	16.4%
1960	864.121	19.4%
1970	924.018	6.9%
1980	873.224	-5.5%
1990	866.228	-0.8%
2000	845.303	-2.4%
2010	802.374	-5.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Hamilton County Age Pyramid

According to the 2000 census , Hamilton County had 845,303 people in 346,790 households and 212,582 families. The population density was 801 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 72.93 percent white, 23.43 percent African American, 0.18 percent Native American, 1.61 percent Asian, 0.03 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.51 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.32 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.13 percent of the population.

Of the 346,790 households, 30.2 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 43.4 percent were married couples living together, 14.3 percent were single mothers, 38.7 percent were non-families, 32.9 percent were single households, and 10.6 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 3.07.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 25.8 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 9.6 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 29.7 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 21.5 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 13.5 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 91.1 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were statistically 86.8 men.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 40,964 , and the median income for a family is $ 53,449. Males had a median income of $ 39,842 versus $ 28,550 for females. The per capita income was $ 24,053. 8.8 percent of families and 11.8 percent of the population are below the poverty line. Of these, 16.2 percent were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 8.7 percent were people over 65 years of age.