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- According to the 2000 Census,
48.2%
of Sumter County residents were white
and 49.0%
were black. Hispanics, who can be identified as either white or black
in the Census data, made up 2.7%
of the county's population. Statewide, 65.1%
of residents were white, 28.7% were
black and 5.3% were Hispanic.
- In Sumter County, 27.8%
of the county’s residents were age 18 or younger,
while 12.3%
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
13.3%
of Sumter 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
34.5%
of all households in the county, compared to
35.0%
statewide.
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Between 2001 and 2005, Sumter County school system reported
an average high school dropout rate
of 8.1%
for students in grades 9 to 12.
Statewide, this rate is 5.6%
for the same period of time.
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- Sumter County
spent an average of $5,909 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,
54.0%
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
12.3 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
162.4,
compared to the
192.6
statewide average.
Sumter County
had 4.4
hospital beds per 1,000 population in 2004, which was
greater 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 Sumter County
was 38.6.
Statewide, in 2004, the rate
was 40.8.
Of the total index crimes reported for that county,
7.0%
were violent crimes,
while 93.0%
were property crimes.
- In 2004, 66.2%
of the adult population in the
county was registered to vote. 47.5%
of the voting-age adult population
for Sumter 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 |
| Americus |
16,120 |
16,516 |
17,013 |
2.5 % |
3.0 % |
| Andersonville |
267 |
277 |
331 |
3.7 % |
19.5 % |
| Desoto |
248 |
258 |
214 |
4.0 % |
-17.1 % |
| Leslie |
470 |
445 |
455 |
-5.3 % |
2.2 % |
| Plains |
651 |
716 |
637 |
10.0 % |
-11.0 % |
| Sumter |
29,360 |
30,232 |
33,200 |
3.0 % |
9.8 % |
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