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- According to the 2000 Census,
93.6%
of Gilmer County residents were white
and 0.3%
were black. Hispanics, who can be identified as either white or black
in the Census data, made up 7.7%
of the county's population. Statewide, 65.1%
of residents were white, 28.7% were
black and 5.3% were Hispanic.
- In Gilmer County, 24.3%
of the county’s residents were age 18 or younger,
while 13.1%
were age 65 or older. Statewide, 26.5%
were age 18 or younger and 9.6% were
age 65 or older.
- The 2000 Census reports
4.6%
of Gilmer County's households were headed by females with
children under 18 years of age, compared with
9.0% statewide.
Total households with children under 18 represented
30.9%
of all households in the county, compared to
35.0%
statewide.
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Between 2001 and 2005, Gilmer County school system reported
an average high school dropout rate
of 4.2%
for students in grades 9 to 12.
Statewide, this rate is 5.6%
for the same period of time.
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- Gilmer County
spent an average of $6,180 per
student for public education each year
between 2001 and 2005, while the statewide average
was $6,603.
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Based on the 2004 graduating class for that county school system,
82.8%
of the students were eligible for
the HOPE Scholarship Program. The scholarship is available to eligible
students to attend a post-secondary school in Georgia.
Statewide, 62.0%
of the graduating students were eligible for the HOPE scholarship.
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Between 2000 and 2004, the
infant mortality rate
(infant deaths per 1,000 live births) was
13.1 for the county.
The statewide
rate was 8.6
during the same period.
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In 2002, the number of
physicians
in the county per 100,000 population was
91.3,
compared to the
192.6
statewide average.
Gilmer County
had 1.9
hospital beds per 1,000 population in 2004, which was
less than
the statewide average of 2.7
hospital beds per 1,000 population.
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The 2004 index crime rate
(crimes per 1,000) for Gilmer County
was 10.4.
Statewide, in 2004, the rate
was 40.8.
Of the total index crimes reported for that county,
2.0%
were violent crimes,
while 98.0%
were property crimes.
- In 2004, 77.2%
of the adult population in the
county was registered to vote. 56.7%
of the voting-age adult population
for Gilmer County voted in the 2004 general election.
Statewide, 70.6%
of eligible Georgians were registered to vote, while
55.1%
of those eligible voted in the general election that year.
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| Community |
Population |
Growth (%) |
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1980 |
1990 |
2000 |
1980-1990 |
1990-2000 |
| East Ellijay |
469 |
344 |
707 |
-26.7 % |
105.5 % |
| Ellijay |
1,507 |
1,184 |
1,584 |
-21.4 % |
33.8 % |
| Gilmer |
11,110 |
13,368 |
23,456 |
20.3 % |
75.5 % |
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