Fairview Heights (Illinois)

St. Clair County

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Fairview Heights is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Fairview Heights had 17,078 inhabitants.

The city 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

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 29.0 km ², of which 0.2 km ² is water and the rest are 28.8 km ² of land. Fairview Heights is located east of St. Louis and extends along the Lincoln Trail.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Fairview Heights 17,078 people in 7353 households. The population density was 588.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 7353 households lived statistically 2.32 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 66.7 percent white, 26.6 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 2.7 percent Asian and 1.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 63,061. The per capita income was $ 28,567. 8.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.