Baldwin County (Alabama)
The Baldwin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Alabama. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Bay Minette.
Geography
The County is located almost in the extreme southwest of Alabama, to the southeast of Florida and southwest to Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. It has an area of 5,250 square kilometers, of which 1,115 square miles are water. At the Baldwin County borders the following Nachbarcountys:
Islands
The mainland and the Mobile Bay are offshore in the Gulf of Mexico a number of islands that belong to the Baldwin County:
- Aikin Iceland
- Alligator Iceland
- Big Iceland
- Canal Iceland
- Dead Lake Iceland
- Edith Hammock
- Fisher Iceland
- Gilchrist Iceland
- Grass Iceland
- Gravine Iceland
- Larry Iceland
- Mound Iceland
- Ono Iceland
- Perdido Key
- Rabbit Iceland
- Richardson Iceland
- Robinson Iceland
- Runamuck Iceland
- South Iceland
- Walker Iceland
History
The Baldwin County was formed on December 21, 1809 from parts of Washington County, ten years before Alabama became a state. It was named for Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807), one of the founding fathers of the United States and from 1799 to 1807 U.S. - senator from Georgia.
The first county seat was located where today the Washington County belonging McIntosh Bluff on the Tombigbee River. 1810 the administrative headquarters was relocated to Blakeley and 1868 to Daphne.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census in 2010, lived in Baldwin County, ( FIPS-Nr.: 1003), 182 265 people in 69 476 households. The population density was 71.24 inhabitants per square kilometer, which means a change of 2.4 percent compared to the 2000 census. The racial the population was composed of 87.3 percent white, 9.7 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Hawaiians and residents of the Pacific island region. 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races, 4.5 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any goods descent.
Of the 69 476 households out of which 28.8 per cent of children or young people under the age of 18 living with them. The average household size was 2.50 Personen.17, 1 percent were 65 years or older and 20,396 people were veterans. 93,320 ( 51.2 percent) were female and 88 945 ( 48.8 percent) were male.
The median income for a household was $ 69,476, per capita income was $ 26,469.
In 2010, the County 19,035 companies, of which 2.7 percent were operated by African Americans, 0.4 percent of Native American, 1.0 percent of people of Asian descent, 1.3 percent of people are Hispanic or Latino of any race and 27.3 percent were operated by women.
Cities and Towns
Citys
- Bay Minette
- Daphne
- Fairhope
- Foley
- Gulf Shores
- Orange Beach
- Robertsdale
- Spanish Fort
Towns
- Elberta
- Loxley
- Magnolia Springs
- Perdido Beach
- Silver Hill
- Summerdale
Census-designated place (CDP )
- Point Clear
Unincorporated communities other
- Barnwell
- Battles Wharf
- Belforest
- Blacksher
- Blakeley
- Bon Secour
- Bridgehead
- Bromley
- Carney
- Carpenter
- Caswell
- Cedar Grove
- Clay City
- Crossroads
- D' Olive
- Douglasville
- Dyas
- Ellisville
- Elsanor
- Fort McDermott
- Fort Morgan
- Gasque
- Gates Wood
- Georgetown
- Gulf Highlands
- Houstonville
- Hurricane
- Jackson Oak
- Josephine
- Latham
- Lillian
- Little River
- Lottie
- Loyola Villa
- Magnolia Beach
- Malbis
- Marlow
- Miflin
- Montrose
- Oak
- Palmetto Beach
- Park City
- Perdido
- Phillip Ville
- Pinchona
- Pine Grove
- Rabun
- Redtown
- River Park
- Romar Beach
- Rosinton
- Seacliff
- Seminole
- Serange
- Stapleton
- Steel Wood
- Stockton
- Tensaw
- Turkey Branch
- Vaughn
- Volanta
- Whitehouse Forks
- Yelling Settlement
- Yupon