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About DeKalb
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• As the only county in Georgia
with a chief executive
officer, DeKalb County’s CEO
works independently of
the legislative branch and
represents all districts.
• The county includes 12
wholly encompassed
municipalities and parts
of the City of Atlanta.
• More than 43% of DeKalb
County residents have a
bachelor’s degree or higher
1900- 1960-
1950 1960s 2010 2019
DeKalb County is mostly Farmland disappears as the Population increases rapidly DeKalb County is a
agrarian and known county transitions into a and becomes more racially commercial, cultural,
for granite quarries more urban area, eventually and ethnically diverse. industrial, and educational
and dairy farms. having more miles of hub with a population of
interstate than any other more than 740,000 and 13
county in Georgia. municipalities.
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