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Livingston County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Founded
- 1833 (authorized), 1836 (organized)
- Named after
- Edward Livingston
- Seat
- Howell
- Largest city
- Howell
- Total
- 585 sq mi (1,520 km )
- Land
- 565 sq mi (1,460 km )
- Water
- 20 sq mi (52 km ) 3.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 197,315
- Density
- 343/sq mi (132/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- milivcounty .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Edward Livingston
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Michigan
- Contains
- Howell
- Capital
- Howell
- Population
- 193866
- Area
- 1516
- Shares border with
- Shiawassee County
- Official website
- www.co.livingston.mi.us
- Image
- Livingston County Courthouse Michigan.JPG
- Households
- 72905
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- Commons category
- Livingston County, Michigan
- topic's main category
- Category:Livingston County, Michigan
- inception
- 1833-00-00
- different from
- Livingston Parish
- water as percent of area
- 3.4
- native label
- Livingston County
- social media followers
- 1259
- per capita income
- 41039
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Encyclopedic overview
Livingston County (/lɪvɪŋstən/ LIV-ing-stən) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, its population was 193,866. It is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat and most populous city is Howell. The county was platted in 1833, but for three years remained assigned to Shiawassee and Washtenaw counties for revenue, taxation, and judicial matters. It was formally organized in 1836. As one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", a group of ten counties whose names honor members of President Andrew Jackson's cabinet, it is named after former U.S. Secretary of State Edward Livingston. Livingston County's location in Southeast Michigan offers residents relatively convenient access to the metropolitan centers of Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint. Livingston County residents regularly commute to those centers, using the three major expressways that pass through the county: I-96, US 23, and M-59. Though largely composed of bedroom communities, the county is experiencing and maintaining significant growth in both the service and industrial economic sectors. Major employers include Tribar, PepsiCo, Citizens Insurance, and ThaiSummit. The Brighton Recreation Area is in the county.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Livingston County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.