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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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