Carbondale Township, Jackson County, Illinois
Jackson County
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The Carbondale Township is one of 16 townships in Jackson County in the southwest of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, the Carbondale Township had 29,544 inhabitants.
Geography
The Carbondale Township is located approximately 15 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Missouri. The mouth of the Ohio at the intersection of the states of Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky is located about 90 km south.
The Carbondale Township is located at 37 ° 43'48 " north latitude and 89 ° 12'35 " west longitude and extending over 98.83 km ², spread over 98.08 km ² land and 0.75 km ² water surface.
The Carbondale Township is located in the eastern part of Jackson County and is bordered to the east by the Williamson County. Within the Jackson County borders the Carbondale Township to the south Makanda Township, to the southwest by the Pomona Township, on the west by the Murphysboro Township, on the northwest by the Somerset Township, and the north by the De Soto Township.
Traffic
In the center of Carbondale Township crosses the running in the north -south U.S. Highway 51, the leader from West to East Illinois State Route 13 All other roads are County Roads or more subordinate and partly unpaved roadways.
Parallel to Highway 51 runs a railway line of the former Illinois Central Railroad, now part of the Canadian National Railway. This route is also used by Amtrak.
With the Southern Illinois Airport is located on the northern edge of the Carbondale Township a regional airport. The nearest major airport is the Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport ( about 170 km north-west ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Carbondale Township 29,544 people in 12,738 households. The population density was 301.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 12,738 households lived statistically 2.04 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 65.1 percent white, 23.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 5.3 percent Asian and 2.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
13.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 79.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.8 percent were 65 years or older. 47.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 22,467. The per capita income was $ 16,585. 40.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Towns
Although the area of the city Carbondale is not identical to the field of Carbondale Township, but makes most of it out. Thus lives - apart from scattered settlements - most of the residents of Carbondale Township in the city of Carbondale.