Polk County (Missouri)
The Polk County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, the County had 31,137 inhabitants and a population density of 18.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Bolivar, named for Simón Bolívar, a South African freedom fighter and national hero of many South American countries.
Geography
The County is located in the middle of the southwest Missouri in the northern Ozarks. It has an area of 1664 square kilometers, of which 14 square kilometers are water surface. At the Polk County borders the following Nachbarcountys:
History
The Polk County was formed January 5, 1835 from parts of Greene County. It was named first by Ezekiel Polk (1747-1824), a colonel in the American Revolutionary War.
Later it was renamed in honor of James K. Polk (1795-1849), the eleventh president of the United States ( 1845-1849 ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Polk County 31,137 people in 11,718 households. The population density was 18.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 11,718 households lived statistically 2.48 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.5 percent white, 1.0 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 35,831. The per capita income was $ 18,138. 21.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Polk County
Citys
- Fair Play
- Humansville
- Pleasant Hope
Villages
- Aldrich
- Flemington
- Halfway
- Goodnight
- Morrisville
Unincorporated communities
- Adonis
- Brighton
- Burns
- Cedar Vista
- Cliquot
- Dunnegan
- Eudora
- Goodson
- Graydon Springs
- Huckaby
- Huron
- Karlin
- Knox
- Polk
- Rimby
- Prairie skirt
- Rondo
- Schofield
- Sentinel
- Slagle
- Tin Town
- Van
- Violet
- Wishart
Structure
The Polk County is divided into 22 townships: