Blue Springs (Missouri)

Jackson County

29-06652

Blue Springs is a city in Jackson County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri. In the census of 2010 Blue Springs had 52 575 inhabitants.

The town is a suburb of Kansas City, and thus also part of the metropolitan Kansas City.

Geography

Blue Springs is located at 39 ° 1'4 " north latitude and 94 ° 16'28 " west longitude and extends over 42.2 km ², which consist almost exclusively of land area. The city is located in the western suburbs of Kansas City, 25 km south of the Missouri River. The border with the neighboring state of Kansas is located approximately 30 km west of Blue Springs.

By Blue Springs performs a railway line of the Union Pacific that runs from Kansas City to the east. Due to the northern outskirts of Blue Springs leads the running east -west Interstate 70 that connects to their leading through Missouri portion of Kansas City and St. Louis, the two largest cities in the state. Running parallel to U.S. Highway 40 through the city center.

On the southwestern outskirts of Blue Springs Lake Jacomo, a nearly 4 square kilometer reservoir is located.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Blue Springs 52 575 people in 19,305 households. The population density was 1116.2 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 87.6 percent white, 6.2 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 3.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the 19,305 households lived statistically 2.82 per person.

27.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.7 percent were between 18 and 64, and 9.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 70,097. The per capita income was $ 28,309. 6.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.