Lincoln County, Mississippi

administration
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Brookhaven
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 555 Brookhaven, MS 39602-0555
Foundation :	April 7, 1870
Made up from:	Amite County Copiah County Franklin County Lawrence County Pike County
Area code :	001 601
Demographics
Residents :	34,869 (2010)
Population density :	23 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1523 km²
Water surface :	6 km²
map

Website : www.co.lincoln.ms.us

The Lincoln County is a county in the US state of Mississippi . The administrative seat ( county seat ) is Brookhaven , which was named after the city of the same name in New York . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located in central southwest Mississippi, about 45 km south of Louisiana and has an area of 1,523 square kilometers, of which six square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Jefferson County	Copiah County
Franklin County		Lawrence County
Amite County	Pike County	Walthall County

history

Lincoln County was formed on April 7, 1870 from parts of Amite, Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence and Pike Counties. It was named after Abraham Lincoln , the 16th President of the United States.

15 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 2, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	10.184	-
1880	13,547	33%
1890	17,912	32.2%
1900	21,552	20.3%
1910	28,597	32.7%
1920	24,652	-13.8%
1930	26,357	6.9%
1940	27,506	4.4%
1950	27,899	1.4%
1960	26,759	-4.1%
1970	26,198	-2.1%
1980	30,174	15.2%
1990	30,278	0.3%
2000	33.166	9.5%
2010	34,869	5.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Lincoln County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

As of the 2000 census , Lincoln County had 33,166 people in 12,538 households and 9,190 families. The population density was 22 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 69.38 percent white, 29.67 percent African American, 0.17 percent Native American, 0.24 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.16 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.37 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups were 0.69 percent of the population.

Of the 12,538 households, 34.9 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 54.9 percent were married couples living together, 14.7 percent were single mothers, and 26.7 percent were non-families. 24.4 percent of all households were single households and 11.5 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.08.

26.7 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 9.5 percent between 18 and 24, 27.6 percent between 25 and 44, 22.3 percent between 45 and 64 years old, and 13.9 percent were 65 years or older . The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were statistically 92.2 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 88.6 males.

The average income of a household amounted to 27,279 USD , for a family is 33,552 USD. Males had a median income of $ 29,060 versus $ 18,877 for females. The per capita income was $ 13,961. About 16.0 percent of families and 19.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line .