El Paso (Illinois)
Woodford County McLean County
17-23737
El Paso is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Woodford and McLean County in the northern center of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, El Paso had 2810 inhabitants.
Geography
El Paso is located at 40 ° 44'21 " north latitude and 89 ° 00'59 " west longitude and extending over 4.01 km ². The place is divided between the El Paso and the Panola Township, Woodford County and the Gridley Township, McLean County.
Towns nearby El Paso are Panola (6.3 km north), Gridley (12 km east), Kappa (8,9 km south) and Secor (11.1 km to the west ). Larger towns in the area are Bloomington ( 31.9 km to the south) and Peoria ( 51.2 km west ).
The nearest cities are Chicago (199 km northeast), Indianapolis (309 km south-east ) and St. Louis 292 km south-west.
Traffic
Through the western parts of the city of El Paso leads in a north-south direction Interstate 39 in downtown crosses the running east to west U.S. Highway 24 leading from north to south Illinois State State Route 251 All other roads are unpaved roadways or within city connecting roads.
In parallel with the IL 251 runs a railway line of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway. On the route of a former leading from north to south another railway line now runs the El Paso Walking Trail.
The nearest airport is 40 km south-southeast of location Central Illinois Regional Airport; the nearest major airport is located 200 km northeast O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in El Paso in 2810 people in 734 households. The population density was 700.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 734 households lived statistically 2.5 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 97.0 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 49,309. The per capita income was $ 22,300. 9.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.