Chesterfield (Missouri)

St. Louis County

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Chesterfield is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Greater St. Louis. In 2010, Chesterfield had 47,484 inhabitants

Geography

Chesterfield is located in the western suburbs of St. Louis on the south bank of the Missouri River at 38 ° 39'12 " north latitude and 90 ° 33'15 " west longitude. The city extends over 84.8 km ², spread to 81.6 km ² land and 3.2 km ² water surface.

The city is the center of Chesterfield Township, but also extends into the Lafayette, the Maryland Heights and the Missouri River Township.

Towns nearby Chesterfield Clarkson Valley are (6,6 km south), Wildwood (16,6 km southwest), Weldon Spring (15,4 km to the northwest ), Maryland Heights (17 km northeast), Westwood (14,3 km east-southeast ), Manchester (12 km southeast) and Ballwin (9,8 km south-southeast ). The center of the city of St. Louis is located 34.6 km east.

Traffic

Through the town of Chesterfield the north-westerly direction across the Daniel Boone Bridge runs into the St. Louis County coming off Interstate 64, here a common route with the U.S. Highways 40 and 61 has. Through the eastern half of the city performs the Missouri State Route 340 The Missouri State Route 109 has northern terminus at the junction with State Route 340 to the east of Chesterfield. All other roads are County Roads or more minor urban roads.

Along the Missouri River runs one of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line from St. Louis to the west.

To the west of the urban area of ​​Chesterfield, the Spirit of St. Louis Airport is located. The larger Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport is located approximately 31 km northeast of the city.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Chesterfield 47,484 people in 19,224 households. The population density was 581.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 19,224 households lived statistically 2.42 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 86.5 percent white, 2.6 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 8.6 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.1 percent were 65 years or older. 52.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 98,309. The per capita income was $ 51,210. 3.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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