Union County (Georgia)

administration
Union County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Blairsville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Union County Administration 114 Courthouse Street Box 1 Blairsville, Georgia, 30512-3003
Foundation :	December 3, 1832
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	21,356 (2010)
Population density :	25.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	852 km²
Water surface :	17 km²
map

Website : www.unioncounty.gov

The Union County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Blairsville .

geography

The county is located in the far north of Georgia, borders North Carolina and has an area of 852 square kilometers, of which 17 square kilometers are water surface and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Towns County , White County , Lumpkin County and Fannin County .

history

Union County was formed on December 3, 1832 as the 88th County in Georgia from the Cherokee Indian Territory. It was named not after its support for the north in the civil war, but after the Union Party , which had existed for 28 years before the civil war broke out.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	3152	-
1850	7234	129.5%
1860	4413	-39%
1870	5267	19.4%
1880	6431	22.1%
1890	7749	20.5%
1900	8481	9.4%
1910	6918	-18.4%
1920	6455	-6.7%
1930	6340	-1.8%
1940	7680	21.1%
1950	7318	-4.7%
1960	6510	-11%
1970	6811	4.6%
1980	9390	37.9%
1990	11,993	27.7%
2000	17,289	44.2%
2010	21,356	23.5%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Former district prison, listed in the NRHP

According to the 2010 census, the 21,356 inhabitants at that time were distributed over 9,116 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.30 people per household. There are a total of 14,052 households.

70.0% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 2.75 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 22.6% of all households and persons aged 65 and over in 42.7% of all households.

19.7% of the population were younger than 20 years old, 17.0% were 20 to 39 years old, 27.5% were 40 to 59 years old, and 35.7% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 51 years. 48.7% of the population were male and 51.3% were female.

96.8% of the population identified themselves as whites, 0.5% as African-Americans , 0.3% as Indians, and 0.4% as Asian Americans . 0.9% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.2% to several ethnic groups. 2.4% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 41,686 USD , while 13.1% of the population lived below the poverty line.