Oswego (Illinois)
Kendall County
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Oswego is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Kendall County in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Oswego had 30,355 inhabitants.
Oswego is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Geography
Oswego is located in the south-western suburb of Chicago area on both sides of the Fox River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Illinois. The town is located at 41 ° 40'58 " north latitude and 88 ° 21'05 " west longitude and extending 40.5 km ². Oswego is located predominantly in the Oswego Township and to a lesser extent in the Bristol Township.
Towns nearby Oswego are Aurora (10,1 km along the Fox River to the north), Montgomery and Boulder Hill ( at the northern city limits ), Bolingbrook (27,3 km to the east), Plainfield (15,1 km southeast) and Yorkville ( on the western edge ).
The city center of Chicago is located 69.5 km east-northeast, to Rockford there are 122 kilometers in a north-westerly direction.
Traffic
The Fox River has been reinforced by numerous dams on a waterway, has the connection to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
The U.S. Highway 30 forms the northeastern city limits. U.S. Highway 34, both in northeast -southwest direction as the main road through Oswego and crosses the city center via a bridge over the Fox River. In Oswego continue to meet the Illinois State Routes 31 and 71 to each other. All other roads are minor roadways as well as within city roads.
Due to the north-west of Oswego runs a railway line of the Illinois Railway, one owned by Omnitrax small railway company.
The nearest airport is located 63.4 km north east of Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Oswego 30,355 people in 9935 households. The population density was 749.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 9935 households lived statistically 3.05 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 85.6 percent white, 5.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 3.4 percent Asian and 3.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 11.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
32.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 6.8 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 93,588. The per capita income was $ 33,606. 3.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.