Aledo (Illinois)

Mercer County

17-00646

Aledo is a small town and the county seat of Mercer County in the western part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, Aledo had 3,613 inhabitants.

Geography

Aledo is located at 41 ° 12'01 " north latitude and 90 ° 45'00 " west longitude. The city covers an area of ​​6 km ², which consists exclusively of land area.

Aledo is located 24 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border to Iowa. By Aledo leads the Illinois State Route 94, the Illinois State Route 17 terminates in the west of the city and branches off again towards the east in the town center.

After skirt Iceland in the Quad Cities are of Aledo 46.3 km in a north - easterly direction, Chicago is located 314 km to the east, Peoria 136 km in Südösten, Illinois ' capital Springfield 235 km south-southeast direction and Iowa's capital Des Moines is located 290 km west of Aledo.

Demographic data

In the census of 2000 a population of 3,613 was determined. These distributed to 1,506 households in 1,016 families. The population density was 622.8 / km ². There were 1,588 buildings, which corresponds to a site density of 273.7 / km ².

The population was in 2000 from 98.34 % White, 0.44 % African American, 0.11 % Native Americans, 0.30 % Asian, and 0.19 % other. 0.61 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 0.72 % of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.

23.4% were under the age of 18, 7.1 % from 18 to 24, 24.5% 25-44, 34.3% from 45 to 64 and 20.7 % 65 and older. The average age was 42 years. For every 100 females were statistically 86.6 men in the over 18 -year-olds 83.8.

The average income per household was $ 33,449, the average family income is $ 41,934. Men's income averaged $ 35,233, and for women about $ 21,271. The per capita income amounted to $ 18,498. Around 7.1% of families and 8.1 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.