Walker County, Georgia

administration
Walker County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	LaFayette
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Walker County Administration P.O. Box 445 LaFayette, Georgia, 30728-0445
Foundation :	December 18, 1833
Made up from:	Cherokee County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	68,756 (2010)
Population density :	59.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1158 km²
Water surface :	1 km²
map

Website : www.co.walker.ga.us

The Walker County is a county in the US state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is LaFayette .

geography

The county is located almost in the extreme northwest of Georgia, bordered by Tennessee to the north and Alabama to the west . It covers an area of 1,158 square kilometers, of which one square kilometer is water surface, and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Catoosa County , Whitfield County , Gordon County, and Chattooga Counties . The Lookout Mountain is the highest point of the county.

The county is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area .

history

Walker County was formed on December 18, 1833 as the 99th County of Georgia from parts of Cherokee County. It was named after Major Freeman Walker , a lawyer and US Senator.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	6572	-
1850	13,109	99.5%
1860	10,082	-23.1%
1870	9925	-1.6%
1880	11,056	11.4%
1890	13,282	20.1%
1900	15,661	17.9%
1910	18,692	19.4%
1920	23,370	25%
1930	26,206	12.1%
1940	31,024	18.4%
1950	38.198	23.1%
1960	45.264	18.5%
1970	50,691	12%
1980	56,470	11.4%
1990	58,340	3.3%
2000	61.053	4.7%
2010	68,756	12.6%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

The Chattahoochee National Forest

The Marsh-Warthen House , listed in the NRHP

According to the 2010 census, the then 68,756 inhabitants were distributed over 26,497 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.54 people per household. There are a total of 30,100 households.

71.3% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.01 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 33.8% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 28.0% of all households.

26.0% of the population were younger than 20 years, 24.3% were 20 to 39 years old, 28.3% were 40 to 59 years old, and 21.3% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 40 years. 49.1% of the population were male and 50.9% were female.

93.0% of the population identified themselves as whites, 4.1% as African American , 0.3% as Indians and 0.4% as Asian Americans . 0.6% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.6% to several ethnic groups. 1.6% of the population was made up of Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 41,539 USD , while 18.4% of the population lived below the poverty line.