Whitfield County

administration
Whitfield County Courthouse
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Dalton
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Whitfield County Administration P.O. Box 248 Dalton, Georgia, 30722-0248
Foundation :	December 30, 1851
Made up from:	Murray County
Area code :	001 706
Demographics
Residents :	102,599 (2010)
Population density :	136.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	753 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.whitfieldcountyga.com

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

geography

The county is located in northwest Georgia, borders Tennessee to the north and is approximately 50 km from Alabama to the west . It covers an area of 753 square kilometers, of which two square kilometers are water, and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Murray County , Gordon County , Walker County, and Catoosa Counties .

The county is part of the metropolitan area of Dalton .

history

Whitfield County was formed on December 30, 1851 as the 97th County of Georgia from parts of Murray County. It was named after Reverend George Whitefield , the founder of the Bethesda Orphan House in Savannah.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	10,047	-
1870	10.117	0.7%
1880	11,900	17.6%
1890	12,910	8.5%
1900	14,509	12.4%
1910	15,934	9.8%
1920	16,897	6%
1930	20,808	23.1%
1940	26,105	25.5%
1950	34,432	31.9%
1960	42,109	22.3%
1970	55,108	30.9%
1980	65,789	19.4%
1990	72,462	10.1%
2000	83,525	15.3%
2010	102,599	22.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

According to the 2010 census, the 102,599 inhabitants at that time were distributed among 35,180 inhabited households, which gives an average of 2.89 people per household. There are a total of 39,899 households.

74.2% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 3.36 persons. Children under the age of 18 lived in 41.4% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 23.6% of all households.

31.5% of the population were younger than 20 years, 26.8% were 20 to 39 years old, 25.9% were 40 to 59 years old, and 16.0% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 34 years. 49.8% of the population were male and 50.2% were female.

76.6% of the population identified themselves as whites, 3.7% as African American , 0.6% as Indians and 1.3% as Asian Americans . 15.1% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 2.6% to several ethnic groups. 31.6% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 41,764 USD , while 19.6% of the population lived below the poverty line.