Shelby County, Tennessee

administration
Shelby County Courthouse
US state :	Tennessee
Administrative headquarters :	Memphis
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 160 N. Main Street Memphis, TN 38103-1866
Foundation :	November 24, 1819
Made up from:	Hardin County
Area code :	001 901
Demographics
Residents :	927,644 (2010)
Population density :	474.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2030 km²
Water surface :	75 km²
map

Website : www.shelbycountytn.gov

The Shelby County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Tennessee . In 2010 , the county had 927,644 residents and a population density of 474.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Memphis .

Shelby County is located in the center of the metropolitan area of Memphis .

geography

The county is located in the extreme southwest of Tennessee and on the south by the Mississippi and separated by the Mississippi to the west by Arkansas . Shelby County covers an area of 2030 square kilometers, of which 75 square kilometers are water.

The major rivers that flow through the county are the Loosahatchie River , Nonconnah Creek, and the Wolf River , all of which drain into the Mississippi River . This forms the lowest point in Tennessee at the point where it leaves the state in the direction of Mississippi .

The following neighboring counties border Shelby County:

	Tipton County
Crittenden County, Arkansas		Fayette County
	DeSoto County, Mississippi	Marshall County, Mississippi

history

Isaac Shelby

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1820	364	-
1830	5648	1,451.6%
1840	14,721	160.6%
1850	31,157	111.7%
1860	48.092	54.4%
1870	76,378	58.8%
1880	78,430	2.7%
1890	112,740	43.7%
1900	153,557	36.2%
1910	191,439	24.7%
1920	223.216	16.6%
1930	306,482	37.3%
1940	358.250	16.9%
1950	482.393	34.7%
1960	627.019	30%
1970	722.014	15.2%
1980	777.113	7.6%
1990	826.330	6.3%
2000	897.472	8.6%
2010	927,644	3.4%
before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The Shelby County was formed on November 24, 1819 from parts of Hardin County. It was named after Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), an officer in the American Revolutionary War , victorious leader in the Battle of Kings Mountain and later first and fifth governor of Kentucky .

Billiard room at Graceland (2010)

Five locations in the county have National Historic Landmark status , including Graceland and the Sun Records studio . 185 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of September 4, 2018).

politics

After the Republican Party had assumed most of the political offices and leadership positions in Shelby County since 2008 and maintained its dominance for years, the Democrats won the local elections in August 2018: They won 21 of 26 political positions, including the offices of mayor ( "Mayor") and sheriffs, who won the African American Lee Harris and Floyd Bonner. The Republicans had held nine of the county's ten most important offices, and none after the 2018 election.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Shelby County had 927,644 people in 340,443 households. The population density was 74.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.65 people lived in 340,443 households.

The racial the population was composed of 43.6 percent white, 52.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 2.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 5.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.4 percent were 65 years or older. 52.3 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 44,705 USD . The per capita income was $ 25,002. 19.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.