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Polk County Historic Population Profile

Polk County was created from Floyd and Paulding counties on Dec. 20, 1851 by an act of the General Assembly. In 1856, part of Polk County was used to help create Haralson County.

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	38,127
1990	33,815
1980	32,386
1970	29,656
1960	28,015
1950	30,976
1940	28,467
1930	25,141
1920	20,357
1910	20,203
1900	17,856
1890	14,945
1880	11,952
1870	7,822
1860	6,295
1850
1840
1830
1820
1810
1800
1790

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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