Glendale Heights, Illinois

DuPage County

17-29730

Glendale Heights is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in DuPage County in the northeast of the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 2010 34.208 inhabitants in the census.

Glendale Heights is located in the west of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Geography

Glendale Heights has an area of ​​about 14 square kilometers and is located about 40 km west of Chicago and Lake Michigan.

History

Until the 1950s the area was heavily influenced by agriculture. In 1959 the village had just 104 inhabitants.

First, the population growth was relatively slow in Glendale Heights, the village recorded in the census in 1960 only 175 inhabitants.

However, this changed very quickly and saw the city in 1962 has 2,020 inhabitants in 1969 - 10 years after the entry - the number had quintupled.

Education

Glendale Heights is divided into two school districts. In both school districts, there are a number of schools that go from preschool to secondary school.

Infrastructure

Due to the proximity to Chicago Glendale Heights has an excellent infrastructure. The nearest highway is Interstate 355, with both Interstate 88 and Interstate 90 are nearby. The nearest international airport is O'Hare International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Glendale Heights 34,208 people in 11,582 households. The population density was 2,443.4 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 52.5 percent white, 5.9 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 22.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 3.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 30.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the 11,582 households lived statistically 2.91 per person.

26.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.1 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 63,490. The per capita income was $ 25,620. 10.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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