McDuffie County

administration
McDuffie County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Thomson
Address of the administrative headquarters:	McDuffie County Administration P.O. Box 28 Thomson, Georgia, 30824-0028
Foundation :	October 18, 1870
Made up from:	Columbia County Warren County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	21,875 (2010)
Population density :	32.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	690 km²
Water surface :	17 km²
map

Website : www.thomson-mcduffie.net

The McDuffie County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Thomson , named after J. Edgar Thomson , a railroad official in Georgia.

geography

The county is located in northeast Georgia, about 40 km off South Carolina and has an area of 690 square kilometers, of which 17 square kilometers are water surface and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Lincoln County , Columbia County , Richmond County , Jefferson County , Warren County and Wilkes County .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Augusta .

history

McDuffie County was formed on October 18, 1870 as the 132nd County in Georgia from parts of Columbia County and Warren Counties. It was named after George McDuffie , a Georgia-born governor and senator from South Carolina .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	9449	-
1890	8789	-7%
1900	9804	11.5%
1910	10,325	5.3%
1920	11,509	11.5%
1930	9014	-21.7%
1940	10,878	20.7%
1950	11,443	5.2%
1960	12,627	10.3%
1970	15,276	21%
1980	18,546	21.4%
1990	20,119	8.5%
2000	21,231	5.5%
2010	21,875	3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 21,875 inhabitants at that time were distributed over 8,289 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.60 people per household. There are a total of 9,319 households.

72.0% 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 36.7% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 26.5% of all households.

28.6% of the population were younger than 20 years, 23.3% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.0% were 40 to 59 years old, and 20.1% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 38 years. 46.9% of the population were male and 53.1% were female.

57.2% of the population identified themselves as whites, 39.8% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 0.3% as Asian Americans . 1.0% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.4% to several ethnic groups. 2.2% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 37,021 USD , while 26.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.