Lincoln County (Georgia)

administration
Lincoln County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Lincoln tone
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Lincoln County Administration P.O. Box 340 Lincoln, Georgia, 30817-0340
Foundation :	February 20, 1796
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	7996 (2010)
Population density :	14.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	666 km²
Water surface :	120 km²
map

Website : www.lincolncountyga.com

The Lincoln County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Lincolnnton .

geography

The county in northeast Georgia bordering South Carolina and has an area of 666 square kilometers, of which 120 square kilometers are water and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Columbia County , McDuffie County , Wilkes County and Elbert County .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Augusta .

history

Lincoln County was formed as the Original County on February 20, 1796. Like the city of Lincoln, it was named after Benjamin Lincoln , a general in the Revolutionary War.

Worth seeing

Lincoln County has over 160 historic buildings listed on the national database.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1800	4766	-
1810	4555	-4.4%
1820	6458	41.8%
1830	6145	-4.8%
1840	5895	-4.1%
1850	5998	1.7%
1860	5466	-8.9%
1870	5413	-1 %
1880	6412	18.5%
1890	6146	-4.1%
1900	7156	16.4%
1910	8714	21.8%
1920	9739	11.8%
1930	7847	-19.4%
1940	7042	-10.3%
1950	6462	-8.2%
1960	5906	-8.6%
1970	5895	-0.2%
1980	6716	13.9%
1990	7442	10.8%
2000	8348	12.2%
2010	7996	-4.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 7,996 inhabitants at that time were distributed among 3,281 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.42 people per household. There are a total of 4786 households.

68.6% of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 2.94 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 28.5% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 31.5% of all households.

23.2% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 20.4% were 20 to 39 years old, 31.4% were 40 to 59 years old, and 25.1% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 45 years. 48.7% of the population were male and 51.3% were female.

65.7% of the population identified themselves as whites, 32.1% as African American , 0.4% as Indians and 0.4% as Asian Americans . 0.4% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 0.9% to several ethnic groups. 1.2% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 34,720 USD , while 25.4% of the population lived below the poverty line.