Weakley County

administration
Weakley County Courthouse
US state :	Tennessee
Administrative headquarters :	Dresden
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse Court Square Dresden, TN 38225-0000
Foundation :	October 21, 1823
Made up from:	Chickasaw land
Area code :	001 731
Demographics
Residents :	35,021 (2010)
Population density :	23.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1507 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

Website : www.weakleycountytn.gov

The Weakley County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Tennessee . In 2010 , the county had 35,021 residents and a population density of 23.3 people per square kilometer. The administrative seat ( county seat ) is Dresden .

geography

The county is located in northwest Tennessee, borders Kentucky to the north and has an area of 1,507 square kilometers, of which 4 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Weakley County:

	Graves County, Kentucky
Obion County		Henry County
Gibson County		Carroll County

history

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	32,546	-
1910	31,929	-1.9%
1920	31,053	-2.7%
1930	29,262	-5.8%
1940	29,498	0.8%
1950	27,962	-5.2%
1960	24,227	-13.4%
1970	28,827	19%
1980	32,896	14.1%
1990	31,972	-2.8%
2000	34,895	9.1%
2010	35,021	0.4%
1900-2000 2010

Weakley County was formed on October 23, 1823 as the original county from Chickasaw Land. It was named after Robert Weakley , a patriot in the American Revolutionary War and later a member of the Tennessee Senate and the US House of Representatives .

Ivandale is one of eleven entries for the county in the NRHP.

Eleven structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of September 14, 2018).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Weakley County had 35,021 people in 13,781 households. The population density was 23.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.35 people lived in the 13,781 households.

The racial the population was composed of 89.2 percent white, 8.0 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.1 percent of the population.

19.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 32,358 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,895. 21.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.