Lebanon (Illinois)

St. Clair County

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Lebanon is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in St. Clair County in the central south-west of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Lebanon had 4418 inhabitants.

The city is located in the Metro - East called the eastern part of the metropolitan area of ​​Greater St. Louis the city of St. Louis in neighboring Missouri.

Geography

Lebanon is located about 35 east of the Mississippi River at 38 ° 36'14 " north latitude and 89 ° 48'26 " west longitude and extending over 6.4 km ². The village is located mostly in the Lebanon Township and to a lesser extent in the O'Fallon Township.

Neighbouring places of Lebanon are Summerfield (5,7 km east), Mascoutah (13,1 km south), Shiloh (10.3 km southwest), O'Fallon (11,2 km west), Troy (19,8 km northwest ) and St. Jacob (15,9 km north-northeast ).

The Scott Air Force Base is 13.4 kilometers southwest of Lebanon.

To the city of St. Louis of Lebanon 41.3 km to the west. The nearest other cities are Chicago ( 459 km north-northeast ), Indiana's capital Indianapolis ( 366 km east-northeast ), Louisville, Kentucky (385 km east), Tennessee's capital Nashville ( 464 km southeast), Memphis ( 478 km south ) and Kansas City ( 438 km to the west ).

Traffic

A few kilometers south of the outskirts of Lebanon extends Interstate 64, which runs from St. Louis to Louisville. In the center of Lebanon crosses the running in the east-west U.S. Highway 50 leading from North to South Illinois State Route 4 All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved driveways and local roads.

Parallel to Highway 50 runs a railway line of CSX Transportation.

The nearest airports are the 15.7 km northerly St. Louis Metro - East Airport and 39.8 km west location St. Louis Downtown Airport; the nearest major airport is located 59.3 km west-northwest of Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Lebanon 4418 people in 1642 households. The population density was 690.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1642 households lived statistically 2.39 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 79.4 percent white, 16.3 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

17.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.6 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 44,544. The per capita income was $ 22,455. 12.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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