Centreville Township, St. Clair County, Illinois
St. Clair County
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The Centreville Township is one of 22 townships in St. Clair County in the western part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, the Centreville Township 25,386 inhabitants.
The Township is located in the Metro - East called the eastern part of the metropolitan area of Greater St. Louis the city of St. Louis in neighboring Missouri.
Geography
The Township is located in the eastern suburban area of St. Louis on the east bank of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with the state of Missouri.
The Centreville Township is located at 38 ° 34'08 " north latitude and 90 ° 08'29 " west longitude and extends over 47.5 km ², spread to 45.4 km ² land and 2.1 km ² water surface.
The Township is located in the northwest of St. Clair County and is bordered to the northwest by the Mississippi separately to the city of St. Louis in Missouri. Inside the St. Clair County the Centreville Township is bordered to the north by the East St. Louis Township, on the east by Belleville, on the southeast by the Stookey Township, and on the south by the Sugar Loaf Township.
Traffic
Due to the Township takes place in northeast -southwest direction Interstate 255, which forms the eastern ring road of St. Louis. A little further west of the Mississippi River runs along the here the Illinois section of the Great River Road forming Illinois State Route 3 meet Further, in the Centreville Township, the Illinois State Route 13, 15, 157 and 163 All other roads are County Roads or more subordinate partially unpaved roadways.
In the Centreville Township run two railway lines of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Canadian National Railway, which lead from here together to St. Louis to the east.
The St. Louis Downtown Airport is located within the Centreville Township, the greater Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport is located around 30 km north-west.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Centreville Township 25,386 people in 8978 households. The population density was 559.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 8978 households lived statistically 2.8 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 27.3 percent white, 69.8 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
31.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.4 percent were 65 years or older. 53.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 30,332. The per capita income was $ 15,483. 32.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places
The population of Centreville Township lives in the following localities:
City
- Centreville
Villages
- Alorton
- Cahokia1
- Sauget
1 - to a small extent in the Sugar Loaf Township