[rubicon]

Median Age 67.1: Fla. County Has Oldest Population
By Terence P. Jeffrey | July 10, 2017 | 5:03 PM EDT
Sumter County Courthouse (Wikimedia Commons)

(CNSNews.com) - When measured by median age, Sumter County, Fla., had the oldest population of any county in the country in 2016, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. Lexington City, Va., had the youngest.

In Sumter County, the median age was 67.1. In Lexington City, the median age was 22.7. (Independent cities in Virginia are treated as counties by the Census Bureau.)

Michigan had more counties (4) than Florida (3) that ranked among the nation’s 20 most elderly counties. These included Alcona County, which ranked No. 5 with a median age of 58.1; Otonagon County, which tied for No. 6 with a median age of 58.0; Keweenaw County, which tied for No. 13 with a median age of 56.7; and Montmorency County, which tied for No. 20 with a median age of 55.9.

Texas, New Mexico and Virginia also had three counties each in the Top 20 for oldest population.

Sumter County—with the nation’s oldest population—is in central Florida, bordering on neither the Gulf Coast nor the Atlantic.

It had a population of 123,996 in 2016, according to the Census Bureau. Of that population, 56.3 percent were 65 years old or older and only 7.1 percent was 18 or younger.

In the 2016 presidential election, it went for Republican candidate Donald Trump over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by 68.27 percent to 29.31 percent.

Lexington City, Va., the nation’s youngest county by median age (22.7), had a population of only 7,045 in 2016. Despite its very young median age, 43.8 percent of the population in Lexington has a bachelor’s degree or higher. It is the home of Washington and Lee University.

Madison County, Idaho, the nation’s second youngest county (23.2), had a population of 29,048, with 27.3 percent of that population being 18 or younger. It is the home to Brigham Young University-Idaho.

[dewilson58]

Thanks.

[manaboutown]

Looks like "The Villages Rules" - again. The development of the world's largest 55 and over community in an otherwise rural county is a unique situation.

BTW, I just had to check out #2, the NM county. Catron county is the largest county in NM in land area, has a population of 3,607 souls and the median age is just north of 60. Its county seat is Reserve and I have successfully hunted deer there several years. Needless to say there are no retirement communities nor many jobs in Catron county. They reached their median age the old fashioned way, aging in place.

[John_W]

I must be in the right place, I am actually 67.1

[rubicon]

Note in the article it stated the population of Sumter County to be 123,996 . I suspect a larger per cent reside in The Villages.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Note in the article it stated the population of Sumter County to be 123,996 . I suspect a larger per cent reside in The Villages.

A very high percentage of Sumter County residents are Villagers which is of course why the high median age. Since outside The Villages the median age is surely lower I image the median age in The Villages including its Lake and Marion County portions to be a bit above that for Sumter County as a whole, at least 70.

As an aside I wonder if the "underage" Villagers were counted - or were they off the books/under the radar?