Mingo County

administration
US state :	West Virginia
Administrative headquarters :	Williamson
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 1197 Williamson, WV 25661-1197
Foundation :	January 30, 1895
Made up from:	Logan County
Area code :	001 304
Demographics
Residents :	26,839 (2010)
Population density :	24.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1097 km²
Water surface :	3 km²
map

Mingo County is a county in the state of West Virginia in the United States . The county seat is Williamson .

geography

The county is located in southwest West Virginia, bordering Kentucky, and has an area of 1,097 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Lincoln County , Logan County , Wyoming County , McDowell County , Pike County, Kentucky, Martin County, Kentucky, and Wayne County .

history

Mingo County was formed on January 30, 1895 from parts of Logan County. It was named after the Mingo Indians, a branch of the Iroquois .

In the county is the city of Matewan, where a miners strike in 1921 led to the heaviest armed conflict within the United States since the Civil War.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	11,359	-
1910	19,431	71.1%
1920	26,384	35.8%
1930	38,319	45.2%
1940	40,802	6.5%
1950	47,409	16.2%
1960	39,742	-16.2%
1970	32,780	-17.5%
1980	37,336	13.9%
1990	33,739	-9.6%
2000	28,253	-16.3%
2010	26,839	-5%
1900-1990

Age pyramid of Mingo County

As of the 2000 census , Mingo County had 28,253 people in 11,303 households and 8,217 families. The population density was 26 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 96.39 percent white, 2.34 percent African American, 0.24 percent Native American, 0.21 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.06 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.74 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.48 percent of the population.

Of the 11,303 households, 33.5 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 56.2 percent were married couples living together, 12.7 percent were single mothers, 27.3 percent were non-families, 25.2 percent were single households, and 10.4 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 2.98.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 24.2 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 9.2 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 29.1 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 25.0 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 12.4 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 93.7 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were statistically 90.2 men.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 21,347 , and the median income for a family is $ 26,581. Males had a median income of $ 31,660 versus $ 18,038 for females. The per capita income was $ 12,445. 25.9 percent of families and 29.7 percent of the population were below the poverty line. Of these, 38.9 percent were children or adolescents under the age of 18 and 18.6 percent were people over 65 years of age.