Low Moor (Iowa)
Clinton County
19-47010
Low Moor is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Clinton County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. In 2010, Low Moor had 288 inhabitants.
Geography
Low Moor is located in the southeast of Clinton County at 41 ° 48'06 " north latitude and 90 ° 21'17 " west longitude and extending over 1.2 km ². The place is located 5 kilometers west of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois. The border with Wisconsin is located about 100 km north. Low Moor is the only independent municipality in Eden Township.
Neighbouring places of Low Moor are Clinton ( 17.4 km ENE ), Camanche (9 km east), Follett (5,9 km south), DeWitt (19,1 km west ) and Elvira (6,6 km north).
The nearest large towns are Dubuque (102 km north), Rockford, Illinois (155 km ENE ), the Quad Cities (46,9 km southwest) and Cedar Rapids (123 km west-northwest ).
Traffic
The U.S. Highway 30 leads in west-east direction over a distance of about one kilometer at Low Moor. Through the urban area only lead subordinate partly unpaved driveways and local roads.
Parallel to Highway 30 runs through Low Moor railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The nearest airport is located 4.9 km north-east of Clinton Municipal Airport; the nearest large airport is located 56.8 km southeast Quad City International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Low Moor 288 people in 117 households. The population density was 240 people per square kilometer. In the 117 households lived statistically 2.46 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white and 0.7 percent of African Americans; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.3 percent were 65 years or older. 46.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 48,333. The per capita income was $ 29,696. 5.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.