Shelby County, Missouri

administration
Shelby County Courthouse
US state :	Missouri
Administrative headquarters :	Shelbyville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 186 Shelbyville, MO 63469-0186
Foundation :	1835
Area code :	001 573
Demographics
Residents :	6373 (2010)
Population density :	4.9 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1301 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

The Shelby County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Missouri . In 2010 , the county had 6,373 people and a population density of 4.9 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Shelbyville .

geography

The county is located in northeast Missouri. The Mississippi , which forms the border with Illinois , is about 50 km to the east. The county covers an area of 1,301 square kilometers, of which 4 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Shelby County:

	Knox County	Lewis County
Macon County		Marion County
Randolph County	Monroe County

history

Isaac Shelby

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	3056	-
1850	4253	39.2%
1860	7301	71.7%
1870	10.119	38.6%
1880	14,024	38.6%
1890	15,642	11.5%
1900	16,167	3.4%
1910	14,864	-8.1%
1920	13,617	-8.4%
1930	11,983	-12%
1940	11,224	-6.3%
1950	9730	-13.3%
1960	9063	-6.9%
1970	7906	-12.8%
1980	7826	-1 %
1990	6942	-11.3%
2000	6799	-2.1%
2010	6373	-6.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Shelby County was formed in 1835. It was named, like the district capital Shelbyville, after Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), the first and fifth governor of Kentucky (1792-1796, 1812-1816).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Shelby County had 6,373 people in 2,705 households. The population density was 4.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, there were 2.30 people each in the 2705 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.1 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.1 percent of the population.

25.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 35,012 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,056. 12.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.