Grand Tower, Illinois
Jackson County
17-30770
Grand Tower is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Jackson County in the southwest of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Grand Tower had 605 inhabitants.
Geography
The town of Grand Tower, the center of Grand Tower Township, located at 37 ° 38 ' N, 89 ° 30' W37.626388888889 - 89.497777777778 and extends over 3 km ². The place on the east bank of the Mississippi, which forms the border with Missouri. The mouth of the Ohio at the intersection of the states of Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky is located 92.1 km south.
The town's name refers to the Tower Rock -called rock formation in the middle of the Mississippi. The rock is in the area of the city opposite Perry County in Missouri.
Towns nearby Grand Tower are Gorham (12,8 km to the north) and Wolf Lake (15 km south). On the opposite bank of the Mississippi Wittenberg is located in Missouri, but where there is no direct connection exists.
The nearest large towns are St. Louis, Missouri (151 km north-west ), Louisville, Kentucky ( 391 km east ), Tennessee's capital Nashville ( 341 km southeast) and Tennessee's largest city of Memphis ( 325 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
Along the Mississippi here the Illinois section of the Great River Road forming Illinois State Route 3 runs All other roads are within city roads.
With the Southern Illinois Airport is situated 37 kilometers north-east of Grand Tower is a regional airport. The nearest major airport is the Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport (184 km north-west ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Grand Tower 605 people in 244 households. The population density was 201.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 244 households lived statistically 2.48 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.2 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.4 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 29,667. The per capita income was $ 11,548. 31.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.