Monmouth (Illinois)

Warren County

17-50010

Monmouth is a town and the administrative seat of Warren County in the western part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, Monmouth had 9,841 inhabitants.

Geography

Monmouth is located at 40 ° 54'42 " north latitude and 90 ° 38'40 " west longitude. The city covers 10.5 square kilometers, spread over 10.2 km ² land and 0.3 km ² water surface.

Monmouth is located 26.6 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border to Iowa. The neighboring town of Galesburg, the county seat of Knox County, located 26.9 km to the east.

In Monmouth take the leading north-south U.S. Highway 67 running east -west U.S. Highway 34 and Illinois State Route 164 to each other. Also a railway line runs through the city.

From Monmouth, there are 71.4 km in the north to the Quad Cities, 319 kilometers from east - north-east to Chicago, Illinois ' capital Springfield is located 195 km south-southeast direction, St. Louis, Missouri 297 km to the south and Iowa capital of Des Moines 312 km to the west.

Demographic data

In the census of 2000 a population of 9,841 was determined. These distributed to 3,688 households in 2,323 families. The population density was 961.0 / km ². There were 3,989 residential buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 389.6 / km ².

The population consisted in 2000 of 92.7 % White, 2.8 % African American, 0.2% Native Americans, 0.5 % Asian and 2.1% other. 1.7 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 4.3% of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups. This number includes only the official population, there are also a large number of unreported by illegal immigrants from Latin America, working in the farmland surrounding the city.

23.0% were under 18, 17.1 % from 18 to 24, 24.1% 25-44, 20.3% from 45 to 64 and 15.5 % 65 and older. The average age was 34 years. For every 100 females were statistically 88.5 men in the over 18 -year-olds 85.3.

The average income per household was $ 33,641, the average family income is $ 41,004. The per capita income amounted to $ 15,839. Around 8.0 % of families and 11.1 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.