Barren County, Kentucky
The Barren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Glasgow, which was named after the city in Scotland. The county is one of the Dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.
Geography
The County is located southwest of the geographic center of Kentucky and has an area of 1,272 square kilometers, of which 23 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by the following counties:
History
The Barren County was formed on December 20, 1796 from parts of Green County and Warren County. It was named after its treeless landscape.
Settled it was mainly through land grants to the former soldiers of the American Revolutionary War.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Barren County 42 173 people in 16,465 households. The population density was 33.8 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 92.5 percent white, 3.9 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 16,465 households lived statistically 2.45 per person.
24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 35,993. The per capita income was $ 20,361. 19.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Cities and Towns
Citys
- Cave City
- Glasgow
- Park City
Unincorporated communities
- Apple Grove
- Austin
- Bear Wallow
- Beckton
- Bristletown
- Carden
- Cookstown
- Coral Hill
- Dry Fork
- Eighty Eight
- Etoile
- Finney
- Goodnight
- Griderville
- Halfway
- Haywood
- Highland Springs
- Hiseville
- Cinema
- Lecta
- Lucas
- Merry Oaks
- Nobob
- Oil City
- Park
- Peter Creek
- Port Oliver Ford
- Pritchardsville
- Railton
- Red Cross
- Rocky Hill
- Roseville
- Slickrock
- Stovall
- Temple Hill
- Tracy