Jim Wells County

administration
Jim Wells County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Alice
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Jim Wells County Courthouse P.O. Box 1459 Alice, TX 78333
Foundation :	1911
Made up from:	Nueces County
Area code :	001 361
Demographics
Residents :	40,838 (2010)
Population density :	18.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2249 km²
Water surface :	10 km²
map

Website : www.co.jim-wells.tx.us

The Jim Wells County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Alice .

geography

The county is located in southeast Texas, about 60 km to the east from the Gulf of Mexico and about 90 km to the southwest from Mexico . It has an area of 2249 square kilometers, of which 10 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Live Oak County , San Patricio County , Nueces County , Kleberg County , Brooks County, and Duval Counties .

history

Jim Wells County was formed from parts of Nueces County on March 25, 1911 and the administrative organization was completed the following year. It was named after James Babbage Wells Jr. (1850-1923), a lawyer in Brownsville who defended Spanish and Mexican land titles in South Texas.

One site in the county is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of December 6, 2019, the Hinojosa Site .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1920	6587	-
1930	13,456	104.3%
1940	20,239	50.4%
1950	27,991	38.3%
1960	34,548	23.4%
1970	33,032	-4.4%
1980	36,498	10.5%
1990	37,679	3.2%
2000	39,326	4.4%
2010	40,838	3.8%
1920-2010 Jim Wells County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

According to the 2000 census , Jim Wells County had 39,326 people in 12,961 households and 10,096 families. The population density was 18 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 77.90 percent white, 0.60 percent African American, 0.62 percent Native American, 0.43 percent Asian, 0.09 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 17.93 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.43 percent were descended from two or more races. 75.71 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 12,961 households, 40.2 percent had children or young people living with them. 58.0 percent were married couples living together, 15.2 percent were single mothers, and 22.1 percent were non-families. 19.7 percent were single households and 9.5 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.99 and the average family size was 3.45 people.

31.4 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 9.0 percent between 18 and 24, 26.5 percent between 25 and 44, 20.6 percent between 45 and 64 and 12.4 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 95.2 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 91.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 28,843 , and the median income for a family is $ 32,616. Males had a median income of $ 30,266 versus $ 17,190 for females. The per capita income was $ 12,252. 20.1 percent of families and 24.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

places

Individual evidence

↑ Jim Wells County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System . Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 155.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed December 1, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed December 6, 2019.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF file; 682 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

↑ Jim Wells County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .