Lumpkin County

administration
Lumpkin County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Dahlonega
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Lumpkin County Administration 99 Courthouse Hill Suite A Dahlonega, Georgia, 30533-0541
Foundation :	December 3, 1832
Made up from:	Cherokee County Habersham County Hall County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	29,966 (2010)
Population density :	40.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	738 km²
Water surface :	1 km²
map

Website : www.lumpkincounty.gov

The Lumpkin County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Dahlonega . The name of the city comes from the Indian word Taulonica , which means "yellow gold".

geography

This county in northern Georgia, about 25 miles from the northern border of Tennessee , has an area of 738 square kilometers (one square kilometer is water) and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: White County , Hall County , Dawson County , Fannin County, and Union County .

history

Lumpkin County was formed on December 3, 1832 from parts of Cherokee County, Habersham County and Hall County. It was named after Wilson Lumpkin , a Georgia governor and member of Congress.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	5671	-
1850	8955	57.9%
1860	4626	-48.3%
1870	5161	11.6%
1880	6520	26.3%
1890	6867	5.3%
1900	7433	8.2%
1910	5444	-26.8%
1920	5240	-3.7%
1930	4927	-6%
1940	6223	26.3%
1950	6574	5.6%
1960	7241	10.1%
1970	8728	20.5%
1980	10,762	23.3%
1990	14,573	35.4%
2000	21,016	44.2%
2010	29,966	42.6%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

The former Lumpkin County's county jail

According to the 2010 census, the then 29,966 inhabitants were distributed over 10,989 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.56 people per household. There are a total of 12,925 households.

69.6% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.00 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 31.1% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 24.7% of all households.

26.2% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 28.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 26.5% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.1% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 36 years. 49.7% of the population were male and 50.3% were female.

94.4% of the population identified themselves as whites, 1.1% as African American , 0.6% as Indians and 0.5% as Asian Americans . 1.6% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.8% to several ethnic groups. 4.5% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 40,634 USD , while 21.6% of the population lived below the poverty line.