Miami County (Kansas)

administration
The Miami County Courthouse in Paola, listed on NRHP No. 73000768
US state :	Kansas
Administrative headquarters :	Paola
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 201 S. Pearl Street Paola, KS 66071-1756
Foundation :	August 25, 1855
Area code :	001 913
Demographics
Residents :	32,787 (2010)
Population density :	22 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1528 km²
Water surface :	35 km²
map

Website : www.miamicountyks.org

The Miami County is a county in the US state of Kansas . The county seat is Paola .

Miami County is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area .

geography

The county is located in east Kansas, borders Missouri, and has an area of 1,528 square kilometers, of which 35 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Douglas County	Johnson County
Franklin County		Cass County, Missouri
Anderson County	Linn County	Bates County, Missouri

history

Miami County was formed on August 25, 1855 and is one of the first 33 counties to be formed by the first Territorial Administration. It was named after the Miami , a Native American tribe.

Historical objects

Northwest of Osawatomie and southeast of Stanton on 335th Street is Carey's Ford Bridge . The bridge, completed in 1909, was listed on January 4, 1990 by the National Register of Historic Places under the number 89002179. A total of 14 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of August 30, 2017).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	4980	-
1870	11,725	135.4%
1880	17.802	51.8%
1890	19,614	10.2%
1900	21,641	10.3%
1910	20,030	-7.4%
1920	19,809	-1.1%
1930	21,243	7.2%
1940	19,489	-8.3%
1950	19,698	1.1%
1960	19,884	0.9%
1970	19,254	-3.2%
1980	21,618	12.3%
1990	23,466	8.5%
2000	28,351	20.8%
2010	32,787	15.6%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census , Miami County had 32,787 people in 11,543 households. The population density was 22 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 95.2 percent white, 1.3 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.59 people lived in each of the 11,543 households.

26.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.3 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 57,705 USD . The per capita income was $ 26,520. 9.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.