Prentiss County

administration
Prentiss County Courthouse
US state :	Mississippi
Administrative headquarters :	Booneville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 477 Booneville, MS 38829-0477
Foundation :	April 15, 1870
Made up from:	Tishomingo County
Area code :	001 662
Demographics
Residents :	25,276 (2010)
Population density :	23.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1083 km²
Water surface :	9 km²
map

The Prentiss County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Mississippi . In 2010 , the county had 25,276 residents and a population density of 23.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Booneville , named after Daniel Boone , a US pioneer and border guard who developed the so-called Wilderness Trail and founded the town of Boonesborough in Kentucky . The county is one of the dry countieswhich means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located almost in the far northeast of Mississippi and is about 15 miles from Alabama and Tennessee . It has an area of 1083 square kilometers, of which nine square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Prentiss County:

Tippah County	Alcorn County
Union County		Tishomingo County
Lee County		Itawamba County

history

Prentiss County was formed on April 15, 1870 from parts of Tishomingo County. It was named after Seargent Smith Prentiss (1808-1850), a member of the US House of Representatives (1838-1839).

One place in the county is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 2, 2018), the Downtown Booneville Historic District .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	9348	-
1880	12,158	30.1%
1890	13,679	12.5%
1900	15,788	15.4%
1910	16,931	7.2%
1920	17.606	4%
1930	19,265	9.4%
1940	20,921	8.6%
1950	19,810	-5.3%
1960	17,949	-9.4%
1970	20,133	12.2%
1980	24,025	19.3%
1990	23,278	-3.1%
2000	25,556	9.8%
2010	25,276	-1.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Prentiss County had 25,276 people in 9,570 households. The population density was 23.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.58 people lived in each of the 9,570 households.

The racial the population was composed of 84.1 percent white, 14.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.2 percent of the population.

23.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 31,262 USD . The per capita income was $ 17,068. 22.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.