Bellwood (Illinois)
Cook County ( Illinois)
17-04975
Bellwood is a village in Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. The village is located about 21 kilometers from the Chicago Loop, Chicago and south of the Eisenhower Expressway, north of the Proviso stations of the Union Pacific Railroad and included in the east of the suburbs of Maywood and Hillside and in the west of Berkeley. According to the census of 2000, there were 20535 residents in the place.
History
Bellwood was founded on 21 May 1900.
Geography
According to the 2000 survey of the location pointed to a land area of square kilometers of 6:22.
Demography
According to the census of the year 2000 20535 people in 6440 households and 5100 families lived in the village. The population density was 3317.4 people per square kilometer. In the village there were 6683 houses with an average density of 1 079 houses per square kilometer.
In the 6440 households lived in 39.2 % of the feller children under 18 years. 47 % were married couples living together. 25.9 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.3 % were non-families. 17.5 % of all households were single-person households, 6 % of living alone was 65 years or older. The average household size was 3:18 and the average family size is 3.57.
30.5 % of the population was under 18 years old, 9.7 % were 18 to 24y.o. old, 28.7 % are 25 to 44 years ALTM 23.2 % were 45 to 64 years old and 7.9 % were older than 65 years. The median was 32 years. For every 100 females population were 88 male; to 100 women who were older than 18 years were 83.5 males.
The median income was $ 52856 and had a median family was $ 57037th The per capita income was $ 19420th About 5.9 % of families and 7.2 % of the population were below the poverty line.
Well-known residents
- Lee J. Archambault, NASA Astronaut
- Eugene Cernan, NASA astronaut, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, grew up in Bellwood