Pike County, Georgia

administration
Pike County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Zebulon
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Pike County Administration P.O. Box 377 Zebulon, Georgia, 30295-0377
Foundation :	December 9, 1822
Made up from:	Monroe County
Area code :	001 770
Demographics
Residents :	17,869 (2010)
Population density :	31.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	568 km²
Water surface :	3 km²
map

Website : www.co.pike.ga.us

The Pike County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Zebulon .

geography

Located in mid-northwest Georgia, about 50 miles to the west from Alabama , the county covers an area of 568 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers are water, and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Spalding County , Lamar County , Upson County, and Meriwether County .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Atlanta .

history

Pike County was formed on December 9, 1822 as the 57th county in Georgia from parts of Monroe County. Like the city of Zebulon, it was named after Zebulon Montgomery Pike , the leader of an expedition along the Mississippi River .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	6149	-
1840	9176	49.2%
1850	14.306	55.9%
1860	10,078	-29.6%
1870	10,905	8.2%
1880	15,849	45.3%
1890	16,300	2.8%
1900	18,761	15.1%
1910	19,495	3.9%
1920	21,212	8.8%
1930	10,853	-48.8%
1940	10,375	-4.4%
1950	8459	-18.5%
1960	7138	-15.6%
1970	7316	2.5%
1980	8937	22.2%
1990	10,224	14.4%
2000	13,688	33.9%
2010	17,869	30.5%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the then 17,869 inhabitants were distributed over 6,187 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.84 people per household. There are a total of 6,820 households.

79.3% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.20 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 41.6% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 25.7% of all households.

29.8% of the population were younger than 20 years, 22.9% were 20 to 39 years old, 29.5% were 40 to 59 years old, and 17.9% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 39 years. 48.9% of the population were male and 51.1% were female.

87.3% of the population identified themselves as white, 10.3% as African-American , 0.3% as Native American and 0.3% as Asian Americans . 0.4% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.3% to several ethnic groups. 1.1% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 50,819 USD , while 12.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.