Elmwood (Illinois)

Peoria County

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Elmwood is a small city in Peoria County in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000 Elmwood had 1945 inhabitants.

Elmwood is the birthplace of Lorado Taft, a sculptor and writer of the early 20th century.

Geography

Elmwood is located at 40 ° 46'42 " north latitude and 89 ° 58'06 " west longitude. The city covers 3.15 km ², which consist exclusively of land area.

Elmwood is located 37.8 km west-northwest of Peoria. By Elmwood jointly conduct the offset crossing from east to west running Illinois State Route 8 and the leading from North to South Illinois State Route 78

279 km northeast of Elwood the city of Chicago, Illinois ' capital Springfield is located 142 km south of Elmwood, 280 km south- south-west is St. Louis, Missouri and the Quad Cities are located 121 km north-west of Elmwood.

Demographic data

In the census of 2000 a population of 1,945 was determined. These were distributed to 772 households in 565 families. The population density was 617.7 / km ². There were 808 residential buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 256.6 / km ².

The population consisted in 2000 of 98.7 % White, 0.2 % African American, 0.4% Native Americans, 0.2 % Asian and 0.1 % other. 0.6 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 0.8% of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.

26.6 % were under the age of 18, 6.1 % from 18 to 24, 27.8 % 25-44, 22.8 % from 45 to 64 and 16.9 % 65 and older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females were statistically 88.5 men in the over 18 -year-olds 84.8.

The median income per household was $ 44,500, the median family income $ 51,505. The median income for men was $ 37,981, and for women about $ 22,557. The per capita income amounted to $ 19,797. About 2.4 % of families and 2.8 % of the total population were income below the poverty line.