Atwood (Illinois)

Douglas County Piatt County

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Atwood is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Douglas County and in Piatt County in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Atwood had 1224 inhabitants.

Geography

Atwood is located at 39 ° 47'58 " north latitude and 88 ° 27'44 " west longitude and extending over 1.61 km ². The place is located in Garrett Township of Douglas County and the Unity Township of Piatt County.

Towns nearby Atwood are Garrett (4.6 km east), Arthur ( 10.6 km to the south), Pierson Station (7.4 miles west) and Ivesdale (16,5 km to the north).

The nearest large towns are Illinois ' capital Springfield (116 miles west), Chicago (272 km north-northeast ), Indiana's capital Indianapolis (201 km east), Evansville, Indiana (289 km south-southeast ) and St. Louis in Missouri (264 km southwest).

Traffic

Through the south of the urban area of ​​Atwood leads in west-east direction of the U.S. Highway 36 branches off from this leading through the center of Illinois State Route 50. All other roads are subordinate, partly unpaved driveways and local roads.

Parallel to Highway 36 runs a railway line of CSX Transportation.

The nearest airports are located east of 15.6 km Tuscola Airport and 45.5 km west location Decatur Airport; The nearest major airports are located 295 km north-northeast O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, 198 km to the east Indianapolis International Airport and 277 km south west Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Atwood 1224 people in 522 households. The population density was 760.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 522 households lived statistically 2.34 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.5 percent white, 0.3 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Asians and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.0 percent were 65 years or older. 52.5 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 48,438. The per capita income was $ 23,405. 4.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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