Sabine County

administration
Sabine County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Hemphill
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Sabine County Courthouse PO Drawer 580 Hemphill, TX 75948
Foundation :	1837
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 409
Demographics
Residents :	10,834 (2010)
Population density :	8.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1493 km²
Water surface :	224 km²
map

Website : www.co.sabine.tx.us

The Sabine County is a county in the US state of Texas . The county seat is in Hemphill .

geography

The county is located in the far east of Texas on the Sabine River , which also forms the border with Louisiana . Sabine County has an area of 1,493 square kilometers, of which 224 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following neighboring counties and parishes:

	Shelby County
San Augustine County		Sabine Parish (Louisiana)
Jasper County	Newton County

history

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	2498	-
1860	2750	10.1%
1870	3256	18.4%
1880	4161	27.8%
1890	4969	19.4%
1900	6394	28.7%
1910	8582	34.2%
1920	12,299	43.3%
1930	11,998	-2.4%
1940	10,896	-9.2%
1950	8568	-21.4%
1960	7302	-14.8%
1970	7187	-1.6%
1980	8702	21.1%
1990	9586	10.2%
2000	10,469	9.2%
2010	10,834	3.5%
1850-2010 Age pyramid of Sabine County (as of 2000)

Sabine County was formed as the original county in 1837. It was named after the Sabine River .

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Sabine County had 10,834 people in 4,284 households. The population density was 8.5 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 89.1 percent white, 7.2 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.2 percent of the population. Statistically, there were 2.37 people in each of the 4,284 households.

19.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 26.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 34,779 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,150. 19.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.