Locust Grove, Georgia

Locust Grove
	County and state location
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	Georgia
County :	Henry County
Coordinates :	33 ° 21 ′ N , 84 ° 6 ′ W Coordinates: 33 ° 21 ′ N , 84 ° 6 ′ W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,402 (as of 2010)
Population density :	195.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	28.1 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) of; which 27.6 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	255 m
Postal code :	30248
Area code :	+1 770/678/470
FIPS :	13-47140
GNIS ID :	0332253
Website :	www.locustgrove-ga.gov
Mayor :	Robert Price

Locust Grove is a city in Henry County in the US state of Georgia with 5402 inhabitants (as of 2010).

geography

Locust Grove is about 10 km south of McDonough and about 40 km south of Atlanta .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1890	255	-
1900	254	-0.4%
1910	716	181.9%
1920	529	-26.1%
1930	428	-19.1%
1940	349	-18.5%
1950	405	16%
1960	369	-8.9%
1970	642	74%
1980	1479	130.4%
1990	1681	13.7%
2000	2322	38.1%
2010	5402	132.6%
2015 estimate	5790	7.2%
US Decennial Census

According to the 2010 census, the 5402 inhabitants at that time were distributed among 1,773 inhabited households, which results in an average of 3.05 people per household. There are a total of 2014 households.

77.8% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.44 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 50.4% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 17.4% of all households.

35.1% of the population were younger than 20 years, 29.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 24.6% were 40 to 59 years old, and 10.6% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 31 years. 47.8% of the population were male and 52.2% were female.

55.7% of the population identified themselves as whites , 37.4% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 1.7% as Asian Americans . 2.1% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 2.8% to several ethnic groups. 5.3% of the population was Hispanic or Latino .

The average annual income per household was 43,337 USD , while 20.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.