Livingston County, New York

Livingston County is a located in the  of. As of the, the population was 64,328. It is named after, delegate to the , member of the committee that drafted the , and father-in-law of , after whom  (and similarly named counties in many other states) were named. Its is.


 * There is also a town named  in.

History
When counties were established in New York State in, the present Livingston County was part of. This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of and, in theory, extending westward to the. This county was reduced in size on, by the creation of , and further on ,  by the creation of , both containing territory now in Vermont.

On, , what was left of Albany County was split into three parts, one remaining under the name Albany County. One of the other pieces,, contained the western portion (and thus, since no western boundary was specified, theoretically still extended west to the Pacific). The eastern boundary of Tryon County was approximately five miles west of the present city of, and the county included the western part of the and the area west of the West Branch of the. The area then designated as Tryon County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for, colonial governor of New York.

In the years prior to, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to. In, following the peace treaty that ended the , the name of Tryon County was changed to in order to honor the general, , who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture the city of , replacing the name of the hated British governor.

In, was split off from Montgomery. The actual area split off from Montgomery County was much larger than the present county, also including the present, , , , , Livingston, , , , , , , and part of and.

was created by a splitting of Ontario County in. This was much larger than the present Genesee County, however. It contained the present, , , , , , , and portions of Livingston and.

Livingston County was formed from Genesee and Ontario Counties in.

Livingston County is home to the State University of New York, College at Geneseo (now ), one of the top liberal arts colleges in the county.

Geography
Livingston County is located in western New York State, south of and east of.

A popular tourist location in partly in Livingston County is the. in partly in the western part of the county. The flows northward through the county.

According to the, the county has a total area of 1,659 (640 ). 1,637 km² (632 sq mi) of it is land and 22 km² (8 sq mi) of it (1.30%) is water.

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Demographics
As of the of 2000, there were 64,328 people, 22,150 households, and 15,349 families residing in the county. The was 39/km² (102/sq mi). There were 24,023 housing units at an average density of 15/km² (38/sq mi). The racial makeup of the county was 94.04%, 3.01% , 0.27% , 0.76% , 0.03% , 0.85% from , and 1.04% from two or more races. or of any race were 2.27% of the population. 22.5% were of, 17.7% , 14.3% , 12.8% and 7.0%  ancestry according to.

There were 22,150 households out of which 34.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.80% were living together, 10.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.70% were non-families. 23.10% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.05.

In the county the population was spread out with 23.40% under the age of 18, 14.20% from 18 to 24, 28.90% from 25 to 44, 22.10% from 45 to 64, and 11.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 100.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.00 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $42,066, and the median income for a family was $50,513. Males had a median income of $36,599 versus $25,228 for females. The for the county was $18,062. About 5.80% of families and 10.40% of the population were below the, including 9.70% of those under age 18 and 6.50% of those age 65 or over.