Marshall County, West Virginia

administration
The Marshall County Courthouse in Moundsville
US state :	West Virginia
Administrative headquarters :	Moundsville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Drawer B Moundsville, WV 26041-2192
Foundation :	March 12, 1835
Made up from:	Ohio County
Area code :	001 304
Demographics
Residents :	33,107 (2010)
Population density :	41.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	809 km²
Water surface :	13 km²
map

The Marshall County is a county in the US state of West Virginia . At the 2010 census , the county had 33,107 residents and a population density of 41.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Moundsville .

geography

The County is the southernmost of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and by the prolonged Mason - Dixon - line separated from the rest territory of the state.

It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the east and Ohio to the west , the border being formed by the Ohio River .

Marshall County covers an area of 809 square kilometers, of which 13 square kilometers are water.

The following counties border Marshall County:

Belmont County (Ohio)	Ohio County	Washington County, Pennsylvania
		Greene County, Pennsylvania
Monroe County (Ohio)	Wetzel County

history

J. Marshall

Marshall County was formed on March 12, 1835 from parts of Ohio County. It was named after John Marshall (1755-1835), a former Secretary of State (1800-1801) and long-time presiding judge at the US Supreme Court (1801-1835).

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	6937	-
1850	10.138	46.1%
1860	12,997	28.2%
1870	14,941	15%
1880	18,840	26.1%
1890	20,735	10.1%
1900	26,444	27.5%
1910	32,388	22.5%
1920	33,681	4%
1930	39,831	18.3%
1940	40.189	0.9%
1950	36,893	-8.2%
1960	38,041	3.1%
1970	37,598	-1.2%
1980	41,608	10.7%
1990	37,356	-10.2%
2000	35,519	-4.9%
2010	33,107	-6.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Marshall County had 33,107 people in 14,155 households. The population density was 41.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.8 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.28 people lived in each of the 14,155 households.

20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.6 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 38,444 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,989. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.