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DeKalb County Historic Population Profile

DeKalb County was created from Fayette and Gwinnett counties on Dec. 9, 1822 by an act of the General Assembly.

In 1853, Fulton County was created entirely from DeKalb County. Portions of DeKalb were used to create Campbell County (1828) and Cherokee County (1831) and were also transferred to the following existing counties: Coweta (1826), Gwinnett (1840), Milton (1859), and Rockdale (1875).

 

Useful Census Links:

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Historical Census Data Browser

Census 2000 (Georgia Tech State Data and Research Center)

Georgia 2000 Information System (University of Georgia ITOS)

Galileo Demographic & Census Data

 

Census

Pop. 

2000

 665,865

1990

545,837

1980

 483,024

1970

415,387

1960

256,782

1950

136,395

1940

 86,942

1930

 70,278

1920

44,051

1910

27,881

1900

21,112

1890

17,189

1880

14,497

1870

10,014

1860

7,806

1850

14,328

1840

10,467

1830

10,042

1820

1810

 

1800

  

1790

 

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

 

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