Bensenville, Illinois

Cook County DuPage County

Bensenville is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, with a small area near the O'Hare International Airport is located in Cook County and overlaps with Chicago. According to the census of the year 2010 18.352 inhabitants live in the town. Bensenville is home to the Edge Ice Arena, the stadium of the Chicago Steel junior ice hockey team.

Geography

According to the census of 2010 the town has a total area of ​​15 square kilometers, of which 99.11 % land area and 0.89 % of water. Part of the land belongs technically to O'Hare Airport and property of the City of Chicago, although there live no people. On the grounds of the airport, there are, however, two cemeteries belonging to churches in Bensenville. There has been considerable litigation because of the desire of the airport, to reallocate the cemeteries and to create room for take-off and landing runways.

Demography

According to the census of the year 2010 18.353 people lived in the place. The population density was 5305 people per square kilometer. In the village there were 6743 houses.

There were 6312 households in which children lived in 36.3 % of cases under 18 years, 48.4 % were married couples, 11 % had a female householder and 33 % were non-families. 26.4 % of households were single-person households and 9.7% had someone living alone over 65 years alone. The average household size was 2.89 and the average family size is 3.5.

24.5 % of the population was younger than 18 years, 7.4 % were 20 to 24 years old, 30.6 % were 25-44 years old, 23.9 % were 45-64 years old and 10.9 % were 65 years or older. The median was 33.4 years.

The median income for households was at USD 52,500 and USD 55,500 for families. About 15.4 % of families are below the poverty line.