Panola County, Mississippi

administration
Panola County Courthouse
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Batesville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 151 Public Square Batesville, MS 38606-2220
Foundation :	February 9, 1836
Made up from:	Chickasaw Land
Area code :	001 662
Demographics
Residents :	34,707 (2010)
Population density :	19.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1826 km²
Water surface :	54 km²
map

Website : www.panolacounty.com

The Panola County is a county in the US state of Mississippi . The county seats are Batesville and Sardis . This makes Panola County one of the ten counties in Mississippi that have two county administrations.

geography

The county is located in northwest Mississippi, about 45 km to the north from Tennessee , to the west about 40 km from Arkansas and the Mississippi and has an area of 1,826 square kilometers, of which 54 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Tunica County	Tate County
Quitman County		Lafayette County
Tallahatchie County		Yalobusha County

history

Panola County was formed from Chickasaw land on February 9, 1836 . It was named after the Indian expression for wool .

28 structures 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	4657	-
1850	11,444	145.7%
1860	13,794	20.5%
1870	20,754	50.5%
1880	28,352	36.6%
1890	26,977	-4.8%
1900	29,027	7.6%
1910	31,274	7.7%
1920	27,845	-11%
1930	28,648	2.9%
1940	34,421	20.2%
1950	31,271	-9.2%
1960	28,791	-7.9%
1970	26,829	-6.8%
1980	28.164	5%
1990	29,996	6.5%
2000	34,274	14.3%
2010	34,707	1.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

The Sardis Lake

Age pyramid of Panola County (as of 2000)

As of the 2000 census , Panola County had 34,274 people in 12,232 households and 9,014 families. The population density was 19 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 50.48 percent white, 48.36 percent African American, 0.16 percent Native American, 0.18 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.41 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.39 percent were descended from two or more races. 1.12 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups.

Of the 12,232 households, 36.1 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 48.9 percent were married couples living together, 19.9 percent were single mothers, and 26.3 percent were non-families. 23.2 percent of all households were single households and 10.1 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.25.

29.4 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 10.4 percent between 18 and 24, 27.4 percent between 25 and 44, 20.8 percent between 45 and 64 years old, and 12.1 percent were 65 years or older . The median age was 33 years. Statistically, for every 100 females there were 91.8 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 86.5 males.

The average income of a household amounted to 26,785 USD , for a family is 32,675 USD. Males had a median income of $ 27,359 versus $ 19,088 for females. The per capita income was $ 13,075. About 21.2 percent of families and 25.3 percent of the population were below the poverty line .