Gulf County, Florida
The Gulf County is a county located in the state of Florida in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat), Port St. Joe.
History
The Gulf County was formed on June 6, 1925 from parts of Calhoun County and named for the Gulf of Mexico, where it is located.
Geography
The county has an area of 1,928 square kilometers, of which 492 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered clockwise to the following counties: Bay County, Calhoun County, Liberty County and Franklin County.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Gulf County 15,863 people in 9,110 households. The population density was 11 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 78.1 % White, 18.7 % African American, 0.4% Indigenous and 0.3 % Asian Americans. 0.8 % were members of other ethnic groups and 1.8% in different ethnic groups. 4.3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino.
In 2010, children under the age of 18 and 34.2 % of all households lived in 27.4 % of all households with persons at least 65 years. 66.1 % of households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or a parent with offspring ). The average size of a household was 2.33 persons and the average family size is 2.83 people.
18.0% of the population were younger than 20 years, 27.8 % were 20-39 years old, 31.3 % were 40-59 years old and 22.9 % were at least 60 years old. The median age was 43 years. 59.8 % of the population were male and 40.2% female.
The median income for a household was $ 39,535, while 18.8 % of the population lived below the poverty line.
In 2010, English was the mother tongue of 94.66 % of the population spoke Spanish 4.50% and 0.84 % had a different mother tongue.
Places in Gulf County
Places in Gulf County with populations of the census of 2010:
Cities:
- Port St. Joe ( County Seat) - 3,445 inhabitants
- Wewahitchka - 1,981 inhabitants
Time zones
The Gulf County is one of the few counties in the United States, which is crossed by a time zone boundary. The boundary between the Eastern (UTC -5) and central ( UTC-6 ) Time zone runs first in the east along the Apalachicola River and continues south along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to the border of Bay County continues. Thus south of the canal applies the eastern time, north of it the central time.