Macon County (Georgia)
The Macon County is a county located in the state of Georgia in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Oglethorpe, named after General James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia.
Geography
The County is located a few kilometers south-east of the geographic center of Georgia and has an area of 1051 square kilometers, of which seven square kilometers of water surface, and borders clockwise to the following counties: Peach County, Houston County, Dooly County, Sumter County, Schley County and Taylor County.
History
Macon County was formed on December 14, 1837 from parts of Houston County and Marion County. It was named for Nathaniel Macon, a general from South Carolina, statesman and President of the U.S. Senate.
During the American Civil War were in the southwest of Macon County's approximately 45,000 Union soldiers in captivity, of whom about 13,000 died of starvation and disease or the effects of wounds. Most of them are buried in the National Cemetery in Andersonville. In 1973, the former prisoner of war camp was restored as Andersonville National Historic Site.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census in 2000 lived in Macon County 14,074 people in 4,834 households and 3,485 families. The population density was 13 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 37.37 percent White, 59.48 percent Black or African American, 0.22 percent Native American, 0.60 percent Asian, 0.05 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 1.52 percent from other races groups; 0.75 percent were descended from two or more races. 2.59 percent of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 4,834 households out of which 34.5 percent have children under the age of 18 living with them. 42.7 percent were married couples living together, 24.4 percent of single mothers and 27.9 percent were non-families. 25.2 percent of all households and 10.4 percent lived in people aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.25 persons.
27.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 9.7 percent between 18 to 24, 27.6 percent between 25 and 44, 22.3 percent between 45 and 64 and 12.7 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 98.5 males statistically every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.7 males.
The median income for a household was $ 24,224, and the median income for a family $ 29,402. Males had a median income of $ 26,922, women $ 18,611. The per capita income was $ 11,820. 22.1 percent of families and 25.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Macon County
- Barrons Lane
- Bartlett
- Clearview
- Cutoff
- Fields
- Five Points
- Fountain Ville
- Four Points
- Garden Valley
- Hicks
- Ideal
- Marshallville
- Montezuma
- Oglethorpe
- St. Louis
- Spalding
- Winchester