Morrow County (Ohio)

administration
Morrow County Courthouse in Mount Gilead, listed on the NRHP as # 74001586
US state :	Ohio
Administrative headquarters :	Mount Gilead
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 80 N. Walnut Street Mount Gilead, OH 43338-0000
Foundation :	February 24, 1848
Made up from:	Delaware County Knox County Marion County Richland County
Area code :	001 419
Demographics
Residents :	34,827 (2010)
Population density :	33.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1055 km²
Water surface :	3 km²
map

Website : www.morrowcounty.info

Morrow County is a county in the state of Ohio in the United States . The county seat is Mount Gilead .

geography

The county is located north of the geographic center of Ohio and has an area of 1055 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Crawford County , Richland County , Knox County , Delaware County, and Marion County .

history

Morrow County was formed on February 24, 1848 from parts of Delaware, Knox, Marion and Richland Counties. It was named after Jeremiah Morrow , Ohio's ninth governor and senator .

15 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of May 16, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	20,280	-
1860	20,445	0.8%
1870	18,583	-9.1%
1880	19,072	2.6%
1890	18,120	-5%
1900	17,879	-1.3%
1910	16,815	-6%
1920	15,570	-7.4%
1930	14,489	-6.9%
1940	15,646	8th %
1950	17.168	9.7%
1960	19,405	13%
1970	21,348	10%
1980	26,480	24%
1990	27,749	4.8%
2000	31,628	14%
2010	34,827	10.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Morrow County Age Pyramid

According to the 2000 census , Morrow County had 31,628 people in 11,499 households and 8,854 families. The population density was 30 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 98.37 percent white, 0.27 percent African American, 0.30 percent Native American, 0.15 percent Asian and 0.18 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.74 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.58 percent of the population.

Of the 11,499 households, 35.6 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 64.6 percent were married couples living together, 8.1 percent were single mothers, 23.0 percent were non-families, 19.0 percent were single households and 7.9 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.09.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 27.3 percent of residents under the age of 18, 7.6 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 29.3 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 24.3 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 11.5 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 98.0 men statistically.

The median income for a household in the 40,882 USD , and the median income for a family was 45,747 USD. Males had a median income of $ 33,129 versus $ 22,454 for females. The per capita income was $ 17,830. 6.6 percent of families and 9.0 percent of the population were below the poverty line. Of these, 12.4 percent were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 7.1 percent were people over 65 years of age.