Lanark (Illinois)

Carroll County

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Lanark is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Carroll County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Lanark had 1457 inhabitants.

Geography

Lanark is located at 42 ° 06'08 " north latitude and 89 ° 50'00 " west longitude and extends over 3 km ². The city is the center of Rock Creek -Lima Township.

The Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa, is about 29 km to the west; the Wisconsin border runs 45 km north.

Towns nearby are Georgetown (4.6 km north), Shannon ( 12.9 km to the north), Milledgeville (19,1 km to the south), Chadwick (16,3 km southwest) and Mount Carroll (14 miles west).

The nearest large towns are Dubuque, Iowa (102 km north-west ), Rockford ( 80.9 km ENE ), Chicago (209 km east-southeast ), Peoria (170 km south), the Quad Cities (120 km southwest) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (174 km west).

Traffic

Along the southern edge of Lanark run on a common stretch of U.S. Highway 52 and Illinois State Route 64 through the town center runs in a north -south direction, the Illinois State Route 73 All other streets are subordinate or urban roads.

Through the town runs parallel to Highway 52, a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The nearest airports are located 74.2 km east Chicago Rockford International Airport and 120 km southwest of the city center Quad City International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Lanard 1457 people in 624 households. The population density was 485.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 624 households lived statistically 2.31 ​​per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 40,950. The per capita income was $ 21,256. 12.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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