DeKalb County, Georgia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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of Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

. The population of the county was 691,893 at the 2010 census. Its county seat

County seat

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is the city of Decatur

Decatur, Georgia

Decatur is a city in, and county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. With a population of 19,335 in the 2010 census, the city is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple zip codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear the Decatur name...

. It is bordered to the west by Fulton County

Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

and contains roughly 10% of the city of Atlanta. (The other 90% lies in Fulton County).

DeKalb County is included in the five-county core of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs

Sandy Springs, Georgia

Sandy Springs is a city in north Georgia, United States. It is a northern suburb of Atlanta. With a 2010 population of 93,853, Sandy Springs is the sixth-largest city in the state and the second-largest city in Metro Atlanta. Sandy Springs is located in north Fulton County, Georgia, just south of...

-Marietta

Marietta, Georgia

Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs...

, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

, metropolitan statistical area. It is the third-most-populated county in the Atlanta area and the state, just behind Gwinnett County

Gwinnett County, Georgia

, Gwinnett County had a population of 805,321. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 53.3% white , 23.6% black , 2.7% Korean, 2.6% Asian Indian, 2.0% Vietnamese, 3.3% other Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 8.8% some other race and 3.1% from two or more races...

(although DeKalb County was historically ranked second behind Fulton County before the 2010 Census), and is the most diverse county in Georgia. DeKalb is primarily a suburban county, and is the second-most-affluent county with an African-American majority in the United States, behind Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland, immediately north, east, and south of Washington, DC. As of 2010, it has a population of 863,420 and is the wealthiest African-American majority county in the nation....

, in suburban Washington D.C.

In 2009, DeKalb earned the Atlanta Regional Commission's "Green Communities" designation for its efforts in conserving energy, water and fuel; investing in renewable energy; reducing waste; and protecting and restoring natural resources.

History

DeKalb County was created in 1822 from Henry

Henry County, Georgia

Henry County is a growing suburban county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 119,341. As of 2010, the county's population swelled to 203,922, up 70.9% from the previous census and becoming Georgia's 8th most populous county and the 10th fastest growing...

, Gwinnett

Gwinnett County, Georgia

and Fayette

Fayette County, Georgia

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 91,263. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 106,144. The county seat is Fayetteville....

counties. It was named for Baron Johann de Kalb

Johann de Kalb

Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb , born Johann Kalb, was a German soldier who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.-Early life:...

, a German soldier who fought on the side of the Americans in the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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.

In 1853, Fulton County

Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

was formed from the western half of DeKalb, divided along a perfectly straight and due north/south line down the middle (along which Moreland Avenue now runs). Until this time, the growing city of Atlanta had been inside DeKalb. Atlanta grew because the city of Decatur did not want to become the railroad terminus in the 1830s, thus a spot at the Thrasherville encampment in western DeKalb was picked to become Terminus and then Marthasville, before becoming Atlanta a few years after its founding. North and southwest Fulton came from two other counties: Milton

Milton County, Georgia

Milton County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1857 to 1931. It was created on December 18, 1857 from parts of northeastern Cobb, southeastern Cherokee, and southwestern Forsyth counties. The county was named for John Milton, Secretary of State of Georgia from 1777 to 1799...

and southeast Campbell

Campbell County, Georgia

Campbell County, Georgia was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1828 to 1931. It was created by the state legislature on December 20, 1828 from land taken from Fayette, Coweta, and Carroll counties, and from the half of DeKalb County which became Fulton County soon afterward. Georgia's...

, respectively. DeKalb once extended slightly further north to the Chattahoochee River

Chattahoochee River

The Chattahoochee River flows through or along the borders of the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers and emptying into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of...

, but this strip was later given to Milton, and is now the panhandle

Panhandle

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of Sandy Springs (though residents there identify with Dunwoody).

During the Civil War

American Civil War

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, much of the Battle of Atlanta

Battle of Atlanta

The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply center of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman overwhelmed...

was fought in DeKalb.

Until the 1960s, DeKalb was a mainly agricultural county, but as the sprawl

Urban sprawl

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of the metropolitan Atlanta region expanded, DeKalb became increasingly urbanized

Urban area

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. Finished in 1969, the eastern half of the Interstate 285

Interstate 285

Interstate 285 is an Interstate Highway loop encircling Atlanta, Georgia, for . I-285 is also known as unsigned State Route 407 and is colloquially referred to as the Perimeter. Suburban sprawl has made it one of the most heavily traveled roadways in the United States, and portions of the highway...

beltway, called "the Perimeter", ringed the northeastern and southern edges of the county, placing most of it "inside the Perimeter" along with nearly all of Atlanta. Interstate 675

Interstate 675 (Georgia)

Interstate 675 was built in southeast metro Atlanta during the mid-1980s to alleviate Interstate 75 to the west, for traffic bound to Interstate 285 east. It is 11.04 miles in length, running from I-75 in the south from the city of Stockbridge to I-285 at its north end...

and Georgia 400 were originally planned to be connected inside the Perimeter, along with the Stone Mountain Freeway (U.S. Highway 78) connecting with the Downtown Connector

Downtown Connector

In Atlanta, Georgia, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the east-west Interstate 20 in the middle....

(a co-signment of I-75/I-85) near Moreland Avenue, destroying many neighborhoods in western DeKalb, but community opposition in the early 1970s spared them this fate of urbanization

Urbanization

Urbanization, urbanisation or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008....

, although part of the proposed Stone Mountain Tollway later became the Freedom Parkway. Only Interstate 20

Interstate 20

Interstate 20 is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. I‑20 runs 1,535 miles from near Kent, Texas, at Interstate 10 to Florence, South Carolina, at Interstate 95...

and Interstate 85

Interstate 85

Interstate 85 is a major interstate highway in the Southeastern United States. Its current southern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 65 in Montgomery, Alabama; its northern terminus interchanges with Interstate 95 in Petersburg, Virginia, near Richmond...

were successfully built through the county. DeKalb also became one of only two counties to approve MARTA

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or MARTA is the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the ninth-largest in the United States. Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system, MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting...

rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

in the 1970s; the county now contains the east and northeast heavy rail lines.

Law and government

**Presidential elections results in DeKalb County**
Year	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	Others
2008 United States presidential election, 2008 The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...	78.86% 254,594	20.31% 65,581	0.86% 2,671
2004 United States presidential election, 2004 The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...	72.61% 200,787	26.61% 73,570	0.77% 2,152
2000 United States presidential election, 2000 The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President....	70.24% 154,509	26.73% 58,807	3.03% 6,664
1996 United States presidential election, 1996 The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack...	66.5% 137,903	29.1% 60,255	4.4% 9,071
1992 United States presidential election, 1992 The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George Bush; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot....	57.8% 124,559	32.6% 70,282	9.6% 20,594
1988 United States presidential election, 1988 The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...	50.2% 92,521	48.9% 90,179	10.8% 1,550
1984 United States presidential election, 1984 The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981–1982...	42.5% 77,329	57.5% 104,697	0.0% 0
1980 United States presidential election, 1980 The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent...	49.4% 82,743	44.7% 74,904	5.8% 9,758
1976 United States presidential election, 1976 The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic...	56.4% 86,872	43.6% 67,160	0.0% 0
1972 United States presidential election, 1972 The United States presidential election of 1972 was the 47th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party's nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern, who ran an anti-war campaign against incumbent Republican President Richard...	22.6% 30,671	77.4% 104,750	0.0% 0
1968 United States presidential election, 1968 The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. Coming four years after Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won in a historic landslide, it saw Johnson forced out of the race and Republican Richard Nixon elected...	26.7% 27,796	50.4% 52,485	23.0% 23,956
1964 United States presidential election, 1964 The United States presidential election of 1964 was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had come to office less than a year earlier following the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. Johnson, who had successfully associated himself with Kennedy's...	42.9% 37,154	57.1% 49,448	0.0% 11
1960 United States presidential election, 1960 The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th American presidential election, held on November 8, 1960, for the term beginning January 20, 1961, and ending January 20, 1965. The incumbent president, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not eligible to run again. The Republican Party...	50.1% 24,116	49.9% 24,046	0.0% 0

In 1986, DeKalb's delegation in the Georgia General Assembly

Georgia General Assembly

The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral, being composed of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Senate....

created a unique chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

(CEO) position, which is the chief elected official. The local legislation that authorized the position made it unique among Georgia's 159 counties, all of which have a standard county commission

County commission

A county commission is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in local government in some states of the United States. County commissions are usually made up of three or more individuals...

or a few still with a sole commissioner

Sole commissioner

In local government in the United States, sole commissioner government is a county commission with only one seat. The sole commissioner typically holds all legislative and executive powers in the county...

. As a result of this legislation, all county employees report to the CEO rather than to commissioners for day-to-day operations. Then, the CEO served as the chairman of the seven-member county commission, but did not vote except to break a tie. In 2008, the Georgia General Assembly amended the act to allow the DeKalb County Board of the Commissioners the authority to preside over meetings of the county commission and to set the agenda for meetings of the county commission. The CEO votes on matters of the commission in the case of a tie.

, DeKalb's CEO is Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

Burrell Ellis

W. Burrell Ellis, Jr. is the fourth Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia. Ellis was elected on November 4, 2008 and assumed office on January 1, 2009....

, who succeeded fellow Democrat Vernon Jones

Vernon Jones

Vernon Jones is an American Democratic politician from Georgia who served as chief executive officer of Dekalb County, Georgia, from 2001 until 2009.-Early life and business career:...

.The commission is elected from five small districts and two super-districts that each make up half of the county and overlap the smaller districts.

Under the redistricting plan in effect for the 2006, 2008, and 2010 elections

United States House of Representatives elections, 2010

The 2010 United States House of Representatives elections, also known as the 2010 midterm elections, were held on November 2, 2010, at the midpoint of President Barack Obama's first term in office. Voters of the 50 U.S. states chose 435 U.S. Representatives. Voters of the U.S...

for the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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, DeKalb is the only county in the state to be split among four congressional districts. Geographically, most of DeKalb is contained within the 4th District

Georgia's 4th congressional district

Georgia's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. The majority African American district includes parts of Dekalb, Rockdale, and Gwinnett counties in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, including North Atlanta, Decatur, and Lilburn...

, while western portions of the county are in the 5th District

Georgia's 5th congressional district

Georgia's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. Based in central Fulton and parts of Dekalb and Clayton counties, the heavily African American district includes the state capital and largest city of Atlanta as well as many of the surrounding suburbs...

, northern portions are in the 6th District

Georgia's 6th congressional district

Georgia's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. The district consists of many of the northern suburbs of Atlanta and includes eastern Cobb County, northern Fulton County, the Dunwoody area of northern Dekalb County, as well as all of Cherokee County....

, and the southwestern corner is in the 13th District

Georgia's 13th congressional district

Georgia's 13th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. The district is located in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area and encircles the city and includes Smyrna, Mableton, Douglasville, and Union City....

Public safety

Unincorporated DeKalb County is policed by the DeKalb County Police Department

DeKalb County Police Department

The DeKalb County Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia. The department serves a population of more than 730,000 people. The Chief is William O'Brien. The DeKalb County Public Safety Director is William "Wiz" Miller, a former DKPD...

.

Fire and medical services are provided throughout the county by DeKalb County Fire and Rescue.

Geography

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 270.91 square miles (701.7 km²), of which 268.21 square miles (694.7 km²) (or 99.00%) is land and 2.7 square miles (7 km²) (or 1.00%) is water.

The county is crossed by the South River

South River (Ocmulgee River)

The South River is a tributary of the Ocmulgee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. It originates in the city of East Point in Fulton County and eventually flows into Lake Jackson, joining the Yellow River and the Alcovy River to form the Ocmulgee....

and numerous creeks, including Nancy Creek

Nancy Creek (Atlanta)

Nancy Creek is a stream in northern Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It begins in far northern DeKalb County, just north of Chamblee, and flows southwestward into Fulton County, through the far southeast corner of Sandy Springs, then through the Buckhead area of Atlanta. It empties into...

, Snapfinger Creek and two forks of Peachtree Creek

Peachtree Creek

Peachtree Creek is a major stream in Atlanta. It flows for almost due west into the Chattahoochee River just south of Vinings. Like other "Peachtree" names in the area, the name is most likely a corruption of "pitch tree", from the area's many pines and their sticky sap.Peachtree Creek is an...

. Peachtree Creek and Nancy Creek drain into the Chattahoochee River

Chattahoochee River

and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

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. South River drains into the Ocmulgee River

Ocmulgee River

The Ocmulgee River is a tributary of the Altamaha River, approximately 255 mi long, in the U.S. state of Georgia...

and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

.

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet amsl and 825 feet above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain granite extends underground at its longest point into Gwinnett County...

lies near the eastern border of the county. Soapstone Ridge

Soapstone Ridge

Soapstone Ridge is a mafic-ultramafic geological complex located in the Piedmont region, south-east of Atlanta, Georgia on a area in DeKalb County and neighboring Fulton, and Clayton Counties. Many archaeological sites, including Late Archaic quarry sites dated between 600 BCE and 1500 BCE, occur...

, parallel to the southern border, was heavily quarried between 1400 and 100 B.C. and objects made from the soapstone have been found as far away as the Great Lakes

Great Lakes

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Adjacent counties

Gwinnett County
Gwinnett County, Georgia
, Gwinnett County had a population of 805,321. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 53.3% white , 23.6% black , 2.7% Korean, 2.6% Asian Indian, 2.0% Vietnamese, 3.3% other Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 8.8% some other race and 3.1% from two or more races...

– north
Rockdale County
Rockdale County, Georgia
Rockdale County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 70,111. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 82,052. Two years later, the population was 84,569. The county seat is Conyers.-Geography:...

– east
Henry County
Henry County, Georgia
Henry County is a growing suburban county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 119,341. As of 2010, the county's population swelled to 203,922, up 70.9% from the previous census and becoming Georgia's 8th most populous county and the 10th fastest growing...

– south
Clayton County
Clayton County, Georgia
Clayton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 236,517. The 2008 Census estimate placed the population at 273,718. The county seat is Jonesboro...

– southwest
Fulton County
Fulton County, Georgia
Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

– west

Government

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta...

is based in the Druid Hills CDP

Druid Hills, Georgia

Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census...

in an unincorporated area

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

in the county.

The Metro State Prison

Metro State Prison

Metro State Prison is a former Georgia Department of Corrections prison for women in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, near Atlanta. Female death row inmates reside in the Metro State Prison. It was closed in 2011....

of the Georgia Department of Corrections is located in an unincorporated area in DeKalb County. Female death row inmates (UDS, "under death sentence") reside in the Metro State Prison.

Economy

Cox Communications

Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...

is headquartered at 1400 Lake Hearn Drive in Dunwoody GA DeKalb County. It is the third-largest cable television service provider in the United States. Kroger

Kroger

The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...

operates its Atlanta-area offices at 2175 Parklake Drive, NE in DeKalb County.

Diplomatic missions

The Consulate-General of Mexico in Atlanta

Diplomatic missions of Mexico

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Mexico, excluding honorary consulates. Mexico's foreign service started in 1822, the year after the signing of the Treaty of Cordoba which marked the beginning of Mexico's independence...

is located in the North Druid Hills CDP. The Consulate-General of Guatemala in Atlanta

Diplomatic missions of Guatemala

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Guatemala, excluding honorary consulates. Guatemala is a small Central American country.-Europe:** Vienna ** Brussels ** Paris ** Berlin ** Vatican City...

is located in the North Atlanta CDP. The Consulate-General of Peru in Atlanta

Diplomatic missions of Peru

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Peru, excluding honorary consulates.-Europe:** Vienna ** Brussels ** Prague ** Helsinki ** Paris ** Berlin ** Frankfurt...

is located in an unincorporated section

Unincorporated area

of DeKalb County.

Demographics

As of 2010 the population of DeKalbCounty was 691,893. The racial and ethnic makeup of the population was 54.3% black or African American (53.6% non-Hispanic black), 33.3% white, 0.4% Native American, 1.5% Asian Indian, 3.6% other Asian, 4.5% reporting some other race, 2.4% reporting two or more races and 9.8% Hispanic or Latino of any race.

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 665,865 people, 249,339 households, and 156,584 families residing in the county. The population density

Population density

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was 2,483 people per square mile (959/km²). There were 261,231 housing units at an average density of 974 per square mile (376/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 54.23% Black

Race (United States Census)

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or African American

Race (United States Census)

, 35.82% White

Race (United States Census)

, 0.23% Native American

Race (United States Census)

, 4.01% Asian

Race (United States Census)

, 0.05% Pacific Islander

Race (United States Census)

, 3.53% from other races

Race (United States Census)

, and 2.12% from two or more races. 7.89% of the population were Hispanic

Race (United States Census)

or Latino

Race (United States Census)

of any race.

There were 249,339 households out of which 31.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.10% were married couples

Marriage

Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...

living together, 17.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.20% were non-families. 26.90% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size was 3.20.

In the county the population was spread out with 24.60% under the age of 18, 10.90% from 18 to 24, 36.70% from 25 to 44, 19.70% from 45 to 64, and 8.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 94.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.80 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $49,117, and the median income for a family was $54,018. Males had a median income of $36,270 versus $31,653 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

for the county was $23,968. About 7.80% of families and 10.80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.10% of those under age 18 and 8.70% of those age 65 or over.

Although Fulton County is more populous, DeKalb has the highest population density of any county in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Cities

Atlanta (since 1909 annexation; about 10% of the current city)
- Virginia Highland (portion; most is in Fulton Co.
  Fulton County, Georgia
  Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area...
  
  )
Avondale Estates
Avondale Estates, Georgia
Avondale Estates is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,960 at the 2010 census.Avondale Estates was founded in 1924 by George Francis Willis, who purchased the entire village of Ingleside to create a planned community. The city was named after Stratford-upon-Avon,...
Chamblee
Chamblee, Georgia
As of the 2010 Census Chamblee had a population of 9,892. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 45.0% white , 7.0% black or African American , 2.1% Native American , 1.8% Vietnamese, 1.6% Asian Indian, 4.6% other Asian, 33.5% from some other race and...
Clarkston
Clarkston, Georgia
Clarkston is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 7,554 at the 2010 census. The city is home to the central campus of Georgia Perimeter College....
Decatur
Decatur, Georgia
Decatur is a city in, and county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. With a population of 19,335 in the 2010 census, the city is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple zip codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear the Decatur name...
Doraville
Doraville, Georgia
Doraville is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 8,330.-History:Doraville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, approved December 15, 1871...
Dunwoody
Dunwoody, Georgia
Dunwoody is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. It is a northern suburb of Atlanta. Dunwoody became incorporated as a city on December 1, 2008...

(as of December 2008)
Lithonia
Lithonia, Georgia
Lithonia is a suburban town in eastern DeKalb County, Georgia, incorporated as a city. Lithonia's population was 1,924 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
Pine Lake
Pine Lake, Georgia
Pine Lake is the smallest city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 730 at the 2010 census.Pine Lake is one of the most eclectic cities in the state, including among its residents a number of locally, regionally and nationally known artists in the fields of music , fine art...
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain is a city in eastern DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,802 at the 2010 census. It is an outer suburb of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.-Geography:...

Census-designated places

Belvedere Park
Belvedere Park, Georgia
Belvedere Park is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 15,152 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Belvedere Park is located at .It is bordered by:...
Candler-McAfee
Candler-McAfee, Georgia
Candler-McAfee is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 23,025 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Candler-McAfee is located at...
Druid Hills
Druid Hills, Georgia
Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census...
Gresham Park
Gresham Park, Georgia
Gresham Park is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 7,432 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Gresham Park is located at...
North Atlanta (unincorporated until 1960s)
North Decatur
North Decatur, Georgia
North Decatur is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 16,698 at the 2010 census.-Geography:North Decatur is located at ....
North Druid Hills
North Druid Hills, Georgia
North Druid Hills, known alternatively as Briarcliff, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 18,947 at the 2010 census. The center of the area is the intersection of Briarcliff and North Druid Hills roads...

(also known as Briarcliff or Toco Hills)
Panthersville
Panthersville, Georgia
Panthersville is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 9,749 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Panthersville is located at...
Redan
Redan, Georgia
Redan is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 33,015. It is an affluent predominantly African American community in eastern DeKalb County....
Scottdale
Scottdale, Georgia
Scottdale is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 10,631 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
Tucker
Tucker, Georgia
Tucker is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 27,581 at the 2010 Census. Although central Tucker, also known as "Main Street Tucker", is laid out as a planned "railroad town," it has never been formally incorporated. Municipal services such as...

Other communities

Briarcliff
Brookhaven
Brookhaven, Georgia
Brookhaven is an unincorporated community located on the western edge of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, directly northeast of Atlanta. Most of the area was formerly incorporated as the city of North Atlanta, which disincorporated during the 1960s...
Collinsville
Conley
Constitution
Ellenwood
Embry Hills
Embry Hills, Georgia
Embry Hills is a neighborhood in northern unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, near the intersection of I-85 and I-285. The neighborhood has a mix of middle-class young families and retirees, with houses priced from the mid-$200,000s to the mid-$300,000s...
Mechanicsville
Mountain View
Northlake
Northlake, Georgia
Northlake is an unincorporated community in northeastern metro Atlanta, Georgia, United States, near Tucker. Although not formally an edge city, Northlake is home to a large amount of office space, retail options, and residential housing...
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Skyland
South Decatur
Turner Hill
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Maryland

Major highways

Interstate 20
Interstate 20
Interstate 20 is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. I‑20 runs 1,535 miles from near Kent, Texas, at Interstate 10 to Florence, South Carolina, at Interstate 95...
Interstate 85
Interstate 85
Interstate 85 is a major interstate highway in the Southeastern United States. Its current southern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 65 in Montgomery, Alabama; its northern terminus interchanges with Interstate 95 in Petersburg, Virginia, near Richmond...
Interstate 285
Interstate 675
Interstate 675 (Georgia)
Interstate 675 was built in southeast metro Atlanta during the mid-1980s to alleviate Interstate 75 to the west, for traffic bound to Interstate 285 east. It is 11.04 miles in length, running from I-75 in the south from the city of Stockbridge to I-285 at its north end...
U.S. Route 23
U.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29 is a north–south United States highway that runs for from the western suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, to Pensacola, Florida. This highway's northern terminus is at Maryland Route 99 in Ellicott City, Maryland...
U.S. Route 78
U.S. Route 78
U.S. Highway 78 is an east–west United States highway that runs for 715 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charleston, South Carolina. Between Memphis and Birmingham, Alabama, it is being upgraded to become Interstate 22....
U.S. Route 278
U.S. Route 278
U.S. Route 278 is a parallel route of U.S. Route 78. It currently runs for 1,074 miles from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to Wickes, Arkansas at U.S. Highway 71/U.S. Highway 59. It might be notable that it is longer than its parent highway, US Hwy-78. US Hwy-278 passes through the states of...
State Route 8
State Route 10
State Route 13
State Route 13 (Georgia)
State Route 13 , known as Buford Highway, Falcon Parkway, and Atlanta Highway, is a state highway in Georgia. It begins at West Peachtree Street and Spring Street just to the north of 17th Street in north Midtown Atlanta. The section near downtown Atlanta is a full freeway, from its south end to...

Secondary highways

Ashford-Dunwoody Road
Bouldercrest Road
Briarcliff Road
Briarcliff Road
Moreland Avenue is a major city street that runs from southeast of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and then along its eastern border. Upon crossing Ponce de Leon Avenue, it becomes Briarcliff Road, which is also an arterial road and runs past the Atkins Park and Virginia Highland neighborhoods of Atlanta,...
Brockett Road
Browns Mill Road (Ga. 212
Georgia State Route 212
State Route 212 is a state route in the U.S. state of Georgia that runs from Snapfinger southeast to Milledgeville. It falls about halfway between I-75 and I-20....

)
Buford Highway
Buford Highway
Buford Highway is an international community along and on either side of a stretch of Georgia State Route 13 in DeKalb County, Georgia. It begins just north of Midtown Atlanta, continues northeast through the towns of Brookhaven, Chamblee, and Doraville, and ends northeast of the Perimeter at the...

(U.S. 23/Ga. 13
Georgia State Route 13
State Route 13 , known as Buford Highway, Falcon Parkway, and Atlanta Highway, is a state highway in Georgia. It begins at West Peachtree Street and Spring Street just to the north of 17th Street in north Midtown Atlanta. The section near downtown Atlanta is a full freeway, from its south end to...

)
Candler Road (Ga. 155
Georgia State Route 155
State Route 155 begins at U.S. 19/U.S. 41/S.R. 3, just south of Griffin, Georgia, and ends at Buford Highway in DeKalb County as Clairmont Road.-Spalding County:-Henry County:-DeKalb County:...

)
Cedar Grove Road
Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
Chamblee-Tucker Road
Church Street
Clairmont Road
Clairmont Road
Clairmont Road is a thoroughfare in the state of Georgia in the United States that connects the city Decatur to the city of Chamblee in metropolitan Atlanta, in a north/south direction. In the city of Decatur, where Clairmont originates at a "T"-intersection with Ponce de Leon Avenue, it is called...

(U.S. 23/Ga. 155
Georgia State Route 155
State Route 155 begins at U.S. 19/U.S. 41/S.R. 3, just south of Griffin, Georgia, and ends at Buford Highway in DeKalb County as Clairmont Road.-Spalding County:-Henry County:-DeKalb County:...

)
Clifton Springs Road
Columbia Drive
Commerce Drive (Ga. 155
Georgia State Route 155
State Route 155 begins at U.S. 19/U.S. 41/S.R. 3, just south of Griffin, Georgia, and ends at Buford Highway in DeKalb County as Clairmont Road.-Spalding County:-Henry County:-DeKalb County:...

)
Covington Highway (U.S. 278
U.S. Route 278
U.S. Route 278 is a parallel route of U.S. Route 78. It currently runs for 1,074 miles from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to Wickes, Arkansas at U.S. Highway 71/U.S. Highway 59. It might be notable that it is longer than its parent highway, US Hwy-78. US Hwy-278 passes through the states of...

/Ga. 12
Georgia State Route 12
State Route 12 begins in Avondale Estates, DeKalb County, Georgia at its intersection with SR 10 and ends at SR 10/US 78 in Thomson, Georgia. State Route 12 overlaps U.S. Route 278 its entire length. It is also concurrent with Interstate 20/SR 402 from Exit 75, which is SR 124 in Lithonia until...

)
DeKalb Industrial Way
East Ponce de Leon Avenue
East Ponce de Leon Avenue
Ponce de Leon Avenue provides a link between Atlanta, Decatur, Clarkston, and Stone Mountain, Georgia. It was named for Ponce de Leon Springs, in turn from explorer Ponce de Leon, but is not pronounced with a Spanish-language accent...
Evans Mill Road
Flakes Mill Road
Flat Shoals Parkway
Flat Shoals Parkway
Flat Shoals Parkway is a road that runs from I-285 to Snapfinger Road in DeKalb County. It is also signed with Georgia State Route 155.- Major Interchanges :...

(Ga. 155
Georgia State Route 155
State Route 155 begins at U.S. 19/U.S. 41/S.R. 3, just south of Griffin, Georgia, and ends at Buford Highway in DeKalb County as Clairmont Road.-Spalding County:-Henry County:-DeKalb County:...

)
Flat Shoals Road
Flat Shoals Road
-Major Interchanges:...

(Ga. 155
Georgia State Route 155
State Route 155 begins at U.S. 19/U.S. 41/S.R. 3, just south of Griffin, Georgia, and ends at Buford Highway in DeKalb County as Clairmont Road.-Spalding County:-Henry County:-DeKalb County:...

)
Glenwood Road (former Ga. 260
Georgia State Route 260
State Route 260 is a short west–east state route located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. From the route's western terminus at U.S. Route 23/State Route 42 in Atlanta, the route runs east to its eastern terminus at Interstate 20 in Atlanta. The route previously continued...

)
Gresham Road
Henderson Mill Road
Henderson Mill Road
Henderson Mill Road runs from Northlake to Embry Hills in Metro Atlanta.South end: Briarcliff RoadNorth end: Chamblee-Tucker RoadRoads intersecting :* Briarcliff Road* Fielding Drive* Northlake Parkway* Briarcliff Way...

Hugh Howell Road (Ga. 236

Georgia State Route 236

State Route 236 is a long state highway in Fulton County and DeKalb County, Georgia. The route begins at Piedmont Road in south Buckhead and ends at Stone Mountain Freeway exit 7 in Stone Mountain. It is signed as Lindbergh Drive in Fulton County, and LaVista Road and Hugh Howell Road in DeKalb...

)

Idlewood Road

Johnson Ferry Road

Klondike Road

LaVista Road (Ga. 236

Georgia State Route 236

)

Lawrenceville Highway

Lawrenceville Highway is a long road that runs through DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. The speed limit is mostly . The towns it runs through are Decatur, Tucker, Lilburn, and Lawrenceville. It is Exit 38 off Interstate 285. Lawrenceville Highway is also signed as U.S. Route 29 and Georgia State Route...

(U.S. 29

U.S. Route 29

U.S. Route 29 is a north–south United States highway that runs for from the western suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, to Pensacola, Florida. This highway's northern terminus is at Maryland Route 99 in Ellicott City, Maryland...

/Ga. 8

Georgia State Route 8

State Route 8 is a west–east route located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The route is cosigned with either U.S. 29 or U.S. 78 for much of its entire length.-Major intersections:...

)

Lithonia Industrial Boulevard

Main Street

Memorial Drive (Ga. 10

Georgia State Route 10

Georgia state route 10 begins at the Downtown Connector in Atlanta and ends at the South Carolina state line in Augusta, Georgia. The western end of Georgia 10 travels along Freedom Parkway, which bypasses the Carter Center to the west....

/Ga. 154

Georgia State Route 154

State Route 154 begins at S.R. 54 in Sharpsburg and ends at S.R. 10 just to the east of Avondale Estates....

)

Moreland Avenue (U.S. 23/Ga. 42

Georgia State Route 42

State Route 42 is a Georgia state highway that runs in a generally north–south orientation from a short distance northeast of Atlanta in DeKalb County to Byron in Peach County.-Routing:...

)

Mount Vernon Road

Mountain Industrial Boulevard

Mountain Industrial Boulevard is a five-lane road that runs through the CDP of Tucker, Georgia. From the Stone Mountain Freeway to its southern terminus, East Ponce de Leon Avenue, it is considered Stone Mountain. It is also Exit 4 on Stone Mountain Freeway. It is also approximately long. It is...

North Clarendon Avenue

North Decatur Road

North Deshon Road

North Druid Hills Road (Ga. 42

Georgia State Route 42

State Route 42 is a Georgia state highway that runs in a generally north–south orientation from a short distance northeast of Atlanta in DeKalb County to Byron in Peach County.-Routing:...

)

North Hairston Road

North Indian Creek Drive

North Peachtree Road

North Stone Mountain-Lithonia Road

Northcrest Road

Northlake Parkway

Oakcliff Road

Panola Road

Panthersville Road

Peachtree Road

"Porch Swing in Tupelo" is a song from British pop-rock performer Elton John's 2004 album, Peachtree Road. The song talks about Elvis Presley's childhood and upbringing and describes Tupelo, Mississippi....

(Ga. 141

Georgia State Route 141

State Route 141 is a north–south route which begins where Roswell Road and Peachtree Road split in Buckhead....

)

Peachtree Industrial Boulevard

Peachtree Industrial Boulevard is a very long road that runs from Peachtree Street just south of Chamblee, and ends in Buford.-DeKalb County:-Gwinnett County:-See also:*Georgia State Route 141...

(Ga. 141

Georgia State Route 141

State Route 141 is a north–south route which begins where Roswell Road and Peachtree Road split in Buckhead....

)

Peeler Road

Pleasantdale Road

Rainbow Drive

Redan Road

River Road

Roberts Drive

Rockbridge Road (Ga. 124

Georgia State Route 124

Georgia State Route 124 is a state highway whose north end is located in southwest Jackson County, Georgia at Georgia State Route 11 and whose south end is located at I-20 in Lithonia, Georgia.-DeKalb County:-Gwinnett County:...

)

Rock Chapel Road (Ga. 124

Georgia State Route 124

)

Scott Boulevard (U.S. 29

U.S. Route 29

/Ga. 8

Georgia State Route 8

State Route 8 is a west–east route located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The route is cosigned with either U.S. 29 or U.S. 78 for much of its entire length.-Major intersections:...

/U.S. 78

U.S. Route 78

U.S. Highway 78 is an east–west United States highway that runs for 715 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charleston, South Carolina. Between Memphis and Birmingham, Alabama, it is being upgraded to become Interstate 22....

)

Shallowford Road

Snapfinger Road (Ga. 155

Georgia State Route 155

State Route 155 begins at U.S. 19/U.S. 41/S.R. 3, just south of Griffin, Georgia, and ends at Buford Highway in DeKalb County as Clairmont Road.-Spalding County:-Henry County:-DeKalb County:...

)

South Deshon Road

South Hairston Road

South Indian Creek Drive

South Stone Mountain-Lithonia Road

South Stone Mountain-Lithonia Road is a road that links Stone Mountain to Lithonia in Metro Atlanta. The speed limit is .-Major interchanges:...

Thurman Road (Ga. 160)

Tilly Mill Road

Turner Hill Road (Ga. 124

Georgia State Route 124

)

Valley Brook Road

Wesley Chapel Road

West Ponce de Leon Avenue

Windsor Parkway

Winters Chapel Road

Public schools

The portion of DeKalb County not within the city of Atlanta or the city of Decatur is served by DeKalb County School System

DeKalb County School System

DeKalb County School System is a school district headquartered at 1701 Mountain Industrial Boulevard in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States...

. The Atlanta portion is served by Atlanta Public Schools

Atlanta Public Schools

Atlanta Public Schools is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. APS is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with interim superintendent Erroll Davis...

. The Decatur portion is served by Decatur City School District.

Private schools

Private schools in DeKalb County include:

St. Pius X Catholic High School (Unincorporated area)
Marist School
Marist School (Georgia)
Marist School is an independent private Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in the Brookhaven area of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, north of the city of Atlanta...

(Brookhaven)
Paideia School (Atlanta)
Mohammed Schools
Mohammed Schools (Georgia)
Mohammed Schools of Atlanta is a 3K-12 Islamic private school system in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, near Atlanta. The schools are administered by the Atlanta Masjid of Islam. As of 2001 about 300 students attend the schools. It is located within the East Atlanta area...

(Unincorporated area)
Saint Thomas More Catholic Elementary & Middle School (Decatur)

Higher education

Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College is a private undergraduate college in the United States. Agnes Scott's campus lies in downtown Decatur, Georgia, nestled inside the perimeter of the bustling metro-Atlanta area....

is a private, all female, undergraduate liberal arts

Liberal arts

The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...

college.

Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university. It is a member of the Association of American Universities

Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education...

, an association of leading research universities in the US and Canada. The university consists of the following divisions: Emory College of Arts and Science, Graduate School, Candler School of Theology

Candler School of Theology

Candler School of Theology, Emory University, is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1914, the school was named after Warren Akin Candler, a former President and Chancellor of Emory University and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...

, Goizueta Business School

Goizueta Business School

Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...

, Emory University School of Law

Emory University School of Law

Emory University School of Law is a first-tier US law school that is part of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It is ranked #30 among ABA-approved law schools by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report...

, Rollins School of Public Health

Rollins School of Public Health

The Rollins School of Public Health is the public health school of Emory University. Founded in 1990, RSPH has more than 850 students pursuing master's degrees and over 100 students pursuing doctorate degrees...

, and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is the nursing school of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school offers degrees for Bachelor of Science in Nursing , Master of Science in Nursing , and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing ....

.

Mercer University

Mercer University

Mercer University is an independent, private, coeducational university with a Baptist heritage located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, business, education, music,...

is a private, coeducational, faith-based university with a Baptist

Baptist

Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

heritage. The main campus is in Macon

Macon, Georgia

Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

. The Cecil B. Day

Cecil B. Day

Cecil Burke Day was the founder of Days Inn Hotels. Day studied at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, but withdrew prior to graduation to join the United States Marine Corps...

Graduate and Professional Campus is in DeKalb County; it houses the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology along with programs of the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics, the School of Medicine, and the Tift College of Education.

Oglethorpe University

Oglethorpe University

Oglethorpe University is a private liberal arts college in Brookhaven, Georgia, an inner suburb of Atlanta. It was chartered in 1835 and named after James Edward Oglethorpe, the state's founder.-History:...

is a private, coeducational, liberal arts school and is named after James Oglethorpe

James Oglethorpe

James Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia...

, founder of the Georgia Colony.

Georgia Perimeter College

Georgia Perimeter College

Georgia Perimeter College is a two-year associate degree-granting unit of the University System of Georgia. In May 2011, the state Board of Regents approved two bachelor's programs: a Bachelor of Arts in Sign Language Interpreting and a Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics...

(formerly DeKalb College) has three campuses within the county and offers two-year associate degrees.

Dekalb Tech is the largest vocational institution in Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

. Dekalb Tech trains students in business, engineering, technologies, health, human services, industrial arts, information systems, and transportation.

DeVry University

DeVry University

DeVry University and DeVry Institute of Technology are divisions of DeVry Inc , a proprietary, for-profit higher education organization that is also the parent organization for Keller Graduate School of Management, Ross University, American University of the Caribbean, Apollo College, Western...

offers Bachleors and Masters Degrees in Healthcare, Accounting, Business, and Management Technology.

Columbia Theological Seminary

Columbia Theological Seminary

Columbia Theological Seminary is one of the ten theological institutions affiliated with the Presbyterian Church . It is located in Decatur, Georgia. Dr. Stephen A. Hayner is the seminary's president.-Description:...

, a theological institution of the Presbyterian Church. More than 640 students are enrolled at Columbia in one of five degree programs: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Theological Studies, Master of Theology, Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Theology.

Public libraries

The DeKalb County Public Library

DeKalb County Public Library

The DeKalb County Public Library is the public library system of DeKalb County, Georgia in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Its collection includes over 800,000 books; collections of over 400 magazines, academic and scientific journals, and newspapers; and audiovisual materials including videotapes,...

has 22 branches throughout the county, with three additional branches planned by 2010.

External links

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