Murray County (Georgia)
The Murray County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Chatsworth.
Geography
The County is located in northern Georgia, the southern border of Tennessee and is about 90 km from the West Alabama away. It has an area of 892 square kilometers, of which six square kilometers of water surface, and borders clockwise to the following counties: Fannin County, Gilmer County, Gordon County and Whitfield County
History
Murray County was formed on December 3, 1832 from parts of Cherokee County. It was named after Thomas Walton Murray, a spokesman for the House of Representatives in Georgia. The mission of the Moravian Church among the Cherokees was in Spring Place by 1801 1838.
Historical buildings
In Chatsworth is the historic Wright Hotel (also known as Chatsworth Hotel). The 1909 finished guest house is located in the East Market Street at number 201, and was accepted as a historical monument with the number 82,002,456 on 17 June 1982 by the National Register of Historic Places.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census in 2000 lived in Murray County 36 506 people in 13,286 households and 10,256 families. The population density was 41 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 95.30 percent White, 0.62 percent African American, 0.29 percent Native American, 0.25 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 2.64 percent from other races groups; 0.88 percent were descended from two or more races. 5.49 percent of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 13,286 households out of which 39.0 percent have children under the age of 18 living with them. 60.8 percent were married couples living together, 11.1 percent were single mothers and 22.8 percent were non-families. 18.8 percent of all households and 6.0 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size was 3.10 persons.
28.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 9.5 percent between 18 to 24, 33.0 percent between 25 and 44, 21.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 8.0 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 99.9 males statistically every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.
The median income for a household in the 36 996 U.S. dollars, and the median income for a family $ 42,155. Males had a median income of $ 29,812, women $ 23,035. The per capita income was $ 16,230. 9.2 percent of families and 12.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in County
- Alaculsy
- Blood Town
- Carter
- Chatsworth
- Cisco
- Cohutta Springs
- Coniston
- Crandall
- Dennis
- Doogan
- Eton
- Gregory
- Hassler Mill
- Ramhurst
- Spring Place
- Sumac
- Temple Grove
- Tennga