Karnak (Illinois)
Pulaski County
17-39077
Karnak is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Pulaski County in the south of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Karnak had 499 inhabitants.
Geography
Karnak is located at 37 ° 17'37 " north latitude and 88 ° 58'31 " west longitude and extending over 5 km ². The place is located 8 km north of the Ohio River, which forms the border with Kentucky. The mouth of the Ohio to the Mississippi, which separates Illinois from Missouri, is located about 40 km southwest. The border with Indiana extends 140 km east.
Towns nearby Karnak are New Grand Chain (8.4 km to the southwest ), Cypress (12 km north-west ), Belknap (4.8 km north-east ) and Boaz (6,9 km east).
The nearest large towns are St. Louis, Missouri (234 km north-northwest ), Louisville, Kentucky ( 376 km east-northeast ), Tennessee's capital Nashville (270 km southeast) and Tennessee's largest city of Memphis ( 302 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
In west-east direction of the Illinois State Route 169 runs through the center of Karnak. All other roads in Karnak are further subordinate driveways or internal local roads.
In parallel with the IL 169 runs a railway line, which connects to the power of the BNSF Railway.
With the Metropolis Municipal Airport is a small airfield located 27.1 km south east of Karnak. The nearest major airports are the Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport (255 km north-north- west ), the Nashville International Airport (279 km southeast) and the Memphis International Airport ( 318 km south-southwest ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Karnak 499 people in 227 households. The population density was 99.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 227 households lived statistically 2.13 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 93.8 percent white, 4.2 percent African Americans, 0.2 percent (one person) Native American, and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
30.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 49.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.2 percent were 65 years or older. 54.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 36,563. The per capita income was $ 18,016. 17.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.