Knoxville (Iowa)

Marion County

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Knoxville is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Marion County in the central southeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. In the census in 2010, Knoxville had 7313 inhabitants.

Geography

Knoxville is located around 10 km south-west of the Lake Red Rock pent-up Des Moines River at 41 ° 19'09 " north latitude and 93 ° 06'05 " west longitude and extends over 11.5 km ².

Neighboring towns are Pella (22,5 km northeast), Durham (16,7 km west ), Pershing (11,8 km southeast), Melcher - Dallas (25,5 km southwest) and Pleasantville (19,1 km west-northwest ).

The nearest large towns are Iowa's capital Des Moines ( 61.9 km northwest ), Cedar Rapids (195 km northeast), Kansas City, Missouri (317 km southwest) and Omaha, Nebraska (269 miles west).

Traffic

On the southern edge of Knoxville run in an east-west direction on a common route, the Iowa Highway 5 and 92 there the Iowa Highway 14 intersect, leading to a north-south direction through the center of the city, where it meets a number of minor roads.

Through the center of the city performs a few kilometers parallel to the Des Moines River running line of the Norfolk Southern Railway.

3.3 km south of the center of Knoxville is the Knoxville Municipal Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Knoxville 7313 people in 3257 households. The population density was 635.9 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the 3257 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.

24.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 41,155. The per capita income was $ 21,594. 13.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.