Profile Quiz - County
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county
1 How many counties are there?
H or L?
GA
Avg US State
H or L? Avg GA Co.
159
US
63
3,141
2
How many counties are metropolitan?
Is Yours? º
70
22
1,092
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
What is the total county population? (2007 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER Avg GA county?
9,544,750
6,020,657
60,030
301,621,157
Percentage change in county population? (2000-2007)
HIGHER or LOWER than GA?
Avg GA county?
16.6%
6.9%
9.9%
7.2%
What % of the county population is under age 18? (2007
est.) HIGHER or LOWER than GA? Avg GA county?
26.5%
What % of county families are headed by single parents?
HIGHER or LOWER than GA? Avg GA county?
17.5%
17.6%
15.4%
What is the public school dropout rate? (2006-07 sch yr)
HIGHER or LOWER than GA? Avg GA county?
4.1%
N/A
4.9%
N/A
What % of adult pop. did NOT complete high school?
HIGHER or LOWER than GA? Avg GA county?
21.4%
18.0%
29.3%
19.6%
What % of adult population had a bachelor’s degree or
higher? HIGHER or LOWER than GA? Avg GA county?
24.3%
23.8%
14.0%
24.4%
7.8%
9.6%
4.8%
15.1%
$32,095
$35,329
$25,483
$36,714
14.3%
12.9%
18.6%
13.3%
1,271,409
762,754
7,996
38,231,474
4.4
4.3
4.9
4.6
10 What % of the population is Hispanic? (2007 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER than GA?
Avg GA county?
11 What is the per capita income? (2006)
HIGHER or LOWER than GA?
Avg GA county?
12 What % of pop. lives below the poverty level? (2005 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER than GA?
Avg GA county?
How many people does that represent?
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg GA county?
13 What is the average annual unemployment rate? (2007)
HIGHER or LOWER than GA?
Avg GA county?
14 Farm Gate Value of all AG commodities produced in
2007?
25.5%
24.5%
$11.6 billion
HIGHER or LOWER than avg GA county?
$72.7 million
15 What are the USDA total farm cash receipts (2007)
$6.8 billion
$5.7 billion
$284.8 billion
16 What is the total number of farms? (2002)
HIGHER or LOWER than avg GA county?
49,311
42,580
310
2,128,982
10/08 Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.