Neshoba County

administration
Neshoba County Courthouse
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Philadelphia
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 401 Beacon Street Philadelphia, MS 39350-2954
Foundation :	December 23, 1833
Made up from:	Choctaw land
Area code :	001 601
Demographics
Residents :	29,676 (2010)
Population density :	20.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1481 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

Website : neshobacounty.net

The Neshoba County is a county in the US state of Mississippi . The county seat is Philadelphia , which was named after the city of the same name in Pennsylvania .

geography

The county is located slightly northeast of the geographic center of Mississippi, is about 70 km to the east from Alabama and has an area of 1,481 square kilometers, of which four square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

	Winston County
Leake County		Kemper County
	Newton County

history

Neshoba County was formed on December 23, 1833 from parts of Choctaw land . It was named after the Indian word for wolf .

On June 21, 1964, the three American civil rights activists James Earl Chaney , Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were murdered in Neshoba County by members of the Ku Klux Klan . The 1988 film " Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate " is based on these events.

Five buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 2, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	2437	-
1850	4728	94%
1860	8343	76.5%
1870	7439	-10.8%
1880	8741	17.5%
1890	11,146	27.5%
1900	12,726	14.2%
1910	17,980	41.3%
1920	19.303	7.4%
1930	26,691	38.3%
1940	27,882	4.5%
1950	25,730	-7.7%
1960	20,927	-18.7%
1970	20,802	-0.6%
1980	23,789	14.4%
1990	24,800	4.2%
2000	28,684	15.7%
2010	29,676	3.5%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Age pyramid of Neshoba County (as of 2000)

According to the 2000 census , Neshoba County had 28,684 people in 10,694 households and 7,742 families. The population density was 19 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 65.50 percent white, 19.33 percent African American, 13.80 percent Native American, 0.19 percent Asian, 0.02 percent from the Pacific island area and 0.34 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.81 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups were 1.16 percent of the population.

Of the 10,694 households, 34.9 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 52.5 percent were married couples living together, 15.6 percent were single mothers, and 27.6 percent were non-families. 24.7 percent of all households were single households and 11.5 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.11.

28.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 9.0 percent between 18 and 24, 27.0 percent between 25 and 44, 21.6 percent between 45 and 64 years old, and 14.2 percent were 65 years or older . The median age was 35 years. Statistically, for every 100 females there were 91.1 males and for every 100 females aged 18 or over there were 88.3 males.

The average income of a household amounted to 28,300 USD , for a family is 33,439 USD. Males had a median income of $ 28,112 versus $ 19,882 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,964. About 17.9 percent of families and 21.0 percent of the population were below the poverty line .