Columbia (Illinois)

Monroe County St. Clair County

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Columbia is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Monroe and St. Clair County in the western part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Columbia had 9707 inhabitants.

Columbia 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

Columbia is located in the southern suburban area of St. Louis on the east bank of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Missouri. Columbia is located at 38 ° 36'37 " north latitude and 90 ° 12'04 " west longitude. The city covers 25 km ².

The city is located mostly in the districts ( " precincts " ) 3, 5, 34 and 36 of Monroe County, but also extends into the Sugar Loaf township of St. Clair County.

Towns nearby Columbia are Dupo (9,7 km north), Millstadt (11,5 km to the east ), Waterloo ( 13.7 km SSE ), Valmeyer ( 24.7 km SSW ) and Oakville on the opposite bank of the Mississippi in Missouri (13, 8 miles west). The center of the city of St. Louis is 25 km north.

Traffic

Due to the north-west of Columbia leads the Interstate 255, the southern and western ring road of St. Louis, which runs here on a section of track shared with U.S. Highway 50. Through the town center leads the coming from the southeast Illinois State Route 3, the Illinois State Route opens into the in the far southeast of the city 158. All other roads are County Roads or more minor urban roads.

Through Columbia runs along the Mississippi a leading south railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad.

On the western edge is a small airfield, which Sackman Field. The St. Louis Downtown Airport is 23 km north, the greater Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport is located 49 km north-northwest of Columbia.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Columbia 9707 people in 3792 households. The population density was 388.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3792 households lived statistically 2.52 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.4 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 73,264. The per capita income was $ 33,460. 3.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Twinning

Since 1992 there has been with the German town in Hesse Gedern a partnership. This has its origins in the initiative by some residents of Columbia, who sought their ancestors. It was not until about 150 years after 156 people from there to the United States (mainly Columbia and Waterloo ) emigrated compounds were found in the old home. This happened in 1990. Already one year later, a delegation from Gedern the emigrants in Columbia. In April 1992, a treaty of friendship was signed during the visit of people from Columbia. The official Verschwisterungsfeier was in May 1993 in Columbia, Illinois.

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