Lafayette County, Missouri

administration
The Lafayette County Courthouse in Lexington, listed on NRHP # 70000339
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Lexington
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 1001 Main Street Lexington, MO 64067-1344
Foundation :	1820
Area code :	001 660
Demographics
Residents :	33,381 (2010)
Population density :	20.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1655 km²
Water surface :	25 km²
map

Website : www.lafayettecountymo.com

The Lafayette County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 33,381 residents and a population density of 20.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Lexington .

Lafayette County is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area .

geography

The county is located in the central northwest of Missouri and is bordered to the north by the Missouri River . It has an area of 1655 square kilometers, of which 25 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Lafayette County:

Ray County		Carroll County
Jackson County		Saline County
	Johnson County	Pettis County

history

La Fayette

Lafayette County was formed in 1820. It was named after Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), a French general and politician who took part in the American Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists and played an important role in the French Revolution .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	2912	-
1840	6815	134%
1850	13,690	100.9%
1860	20,098	46.8%
1870	22,623	12.6%
1880	25,710	13.6%
1890	30.184	17.4%
1900	31,679	5%
1910	30,154	-4.8%
1920	30.006	-0.5%
1930	29,259	-2.5%
1940	27,856	-4.8%
1950	25,272	-9.3%
1960	25,274	0%
1970	26,626	5.3%
1980	29,925	12.4%
1990	31,107	3.9%
2000	32,960	6%
2010	33,381	1.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Wentworth Military Academy , listed on the NRHP

As of the 2010 census , Lafayette County had 33,381 people in 13,337 households. The population density was 20.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.36 people lived in the 13,337 households.

The racial the population was composed of 94.1 percent white, 2.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.2 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 45,921 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,733. 10.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Lafayette County localities

Citys

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partly in Saline County

2 - partly in Jackson County}

structure

Lafayette County is divided into eight townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Clay Township	4996	29-14428
Davis Township	4826	29-18406
Dover Township	2204	29-19936
Freedom Township	3546	29-25858
Lexington Township	5872	29-41888
Middleton Township	1606	29-47882
Sni-A-Bar Township	7467	29-68456
Washington Township	2864	29-77560