Madison County (Georgia)

administration
Madison County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Danielsville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Madison County Administration P.O. Box 147 Danielsville, Georgia, 30633-0147
Foundation :	December 5, 1811
Made up from:	Clarke County Elbert County Franklin County Jackson County Oglethorpe County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	28,120 (2010)
Population density :	38.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	740 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

Website : www.madisonco.us

The Madison County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Danielsville , named after General Allen Daniel .

geography

The county is located north-northeast of the geographic center of Georgia, is about 40 km from South Carolina in the southeast , and has an area of 740 square kilometers, of which four square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Hart County , Elbert County , Oglethorpe County , Clarke County , Jackson County , Banks County, and Franklin Counties .

The county is part of the Athens – Clarke County metropolitan area .

history

J. Madison

The Watson Mill Bridge at Carlton, built in 1885

Madison County was formed on December 5, 1811 as the 38th county in Georgia from parts of Clarke County, Elbert County, Franklin County, Jackson County, and Oglethorpe Counties. It was named after the US President James Madison . Until the 1930s, the image of the county was dominated by huge cotton plantations in monoculture. Agriculture still comes first today.

Historical objects

In Colbert is located Colbert Historic District . The area comprises 43 buildings and is bordered between 4th & 5th Street and 4th & 8th Avenue. The district was listed on May 31, 1984 by the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic Monument with the number 84001154.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1820	3735	-
1830	4646	24.4%
1840	4510	-2.9%
1850	5703	26.5%
1860	5933	4%
1870	5227	-11.9%
1880	7978	52.6%
1890	11,024	38.2%
1900	13,224	20%
1910	16,851	27.4%
1920	18.803	11.6%
1930	14,921	-20.6%
1940	13,431	-10%
1950	12,238	-8.9%
1960	11,246	-8.1%
1970	13,517	20.2%
1980	17,747	31.3%
1990	21,050	18.6%
2000	25,730	22.2%
2010	28,120	9.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 28,120 inhabitants were distributed over 10,508 inhabited households, which results in an average of 2.66 people per household. There are a total of 11,784 households.

74.3% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.07 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 35.4% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 26.2% of all households.

27.2% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 23.5% were 20 to 39 years old, 29.7% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.4% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 39 years. 49.4% of the population were male and 50.6% were female.

87.6% of the population identified themselves as whites, 8.4% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 0.6% as Asian Americans . 1.9% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.2% to several ethnic groups. 4.1% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 45,063 USD , while 16.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.