Spencer County, Indiana

administration
Spencer County Courthouse, listed on NRHP No. 99000304
US state :	Indiana
Administrative headquarters :	Rockport
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 200 Main Street Rockport, IN 47635-1492
Foundation :	January 10, 1818
Made up from:	Perry County Warrick County
Area code :	001 812
Demographics
Residents :	20,952 (2010)
Population density :	20.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1039 km²
Water surface :	7 km²
map

Website : www.spencerco.org

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

The Spencer County is a county in the US state of Indiana . The county seat is Rockport .

geography

The county is located in south-southwest Indiana on the Ohio River , which forms the border with Kentucky . It has an area of 1,039 square kilometers, of which seven square kilometers are water. The following counties border Spencer County:

	Dubois County
Warrick County		Perry County
	Daviess County, Kentucky	Hancock County, Kentucky

history

Spencer County was formed on January 10, 1818 from former parts of Perry County and Warrick County. It was named after Spier Spencer (around 1770-1811), a hero in the battle of Tippecanoe .

Spencer County has a National Historic Landmark , the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial . A total of 7 buildings and sites in the county are registered in the National Register of Historic Places (as of September 3, 2017).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1820	1882	-
1830	3196	69.8%
1840	6305	97.3%
1850	8616	36.7%
1860	14,556	68.9%
1870	17,998	23.6%
1880	22,122	22.9%
1890	22,060	-0.3%
1900	22,407	1.6%
1910	20,676	-7.7%
1920	18,400	-11%
1930	16,713	-9.2%
1940	16,211	-3%
1950	16,174	-0.2%
1960	16,074	-0.6%
1970	17.134	6.6%
1980	19,361	13%
1990	19,490	0.7%
2000	20,391	4.6%
2010	20,952	2.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000–2010

As of the 2010 census , Spencer County had 20,952 people in 8,363 households. The population density was 20.3 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.36 people lived in each of the 8,363 households.

24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.0 percent were 65 years or older. 49.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 49,006 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,862. 10.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.