Bettendorf (Iowa)
Scott County
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Bettendorf is a city ( with the status of City ) in Scott County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa on the west bank of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois. Bettendorf is next to Davenport, Iowa and Moline, East Moline and rock in Iceland Illinois one of the so-called Quad Cities. In the census in 2010 Bettendorf had 33 217 inhabitants.
Geography
Bettendorf is located in Eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois. Bettendorf is located at 41 ° 33'00 " north latitude and 90 ° 29'37 " west longitude and covers an area of 57.8 km ², which is 55.0 km ² on land and 2.8 km ² water surface spread.
On the opposite bank of the Mississippi are the cities of Moline and East Moline, in the west, the city of Bettendorf is immediately adjacent to Davenport, the largest city in the Quad Cities. Other neighboring towns are Riverdale (4.1 km to the southeast ), Panorama Park ( 4.1 km east-southeast ), Le Clair ( 12.1 km ENE ) and Eldridge ( 22.0 km north west )
The nearest large towns are Iowa's capital Des Moines (273 miles west), Wisconsin's capital Madison (264 km northeast), Chicago (270 km east) and St. Louis in Missouri ( 399 km south ).
Traffic
Bettendorf is located on the Iowa section of the Great River Road forming U.S. Highway 67 through the northern parts of the city extends in a west-east direction of Interstate 80, which is the shortest route from Chicago to Des Moines. The western boundary of the urban area of Bettendorf is mostly formed by Interstate 74 and running on the same route U.S. Highway 6.
By Bettendorf runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway, which runs along the entire reaches of the Mississippi.
On the air transport network Bettendorf is connected via the Davenport Municipal Airport ( 17.8 km to the northwest ) and the Quad City International Airport ( 16.3 km to the south on the southern edge of Moline ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Bettendorf 33 217 people in 13,329 households. The population density was 603.9 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 91.9 percent white, 2.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 3.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 13,329 households lived statistically 2.43 per person.
25.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 65,604. The per capita income was $ 35,932. 5.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.