Pontoon Beach, Illinois

Madison County

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Pontoon Beach is a Village in Madison County in the western part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, Pontoon Beach had 5620 inhabitants.

The city is located near the east bank of the Mississippi River in the middle of the Metro East in Illinois called lying eastern suburb area around the city of St. Louis in Missouri.

Geography

Pontoon Beach is located at 38 ° 43'34 north latitude and 90 ° 03'38 "west longitude. The city covers 21.9 square kilometers, spread over 21.2 km ² land and 0.7 km ² water surface.

The city around 11 kilometers east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border to Missouri.

North of Pontoon Beach runs in east-west direction with Interstate 270, a feeder road to Interstate 70, the eastern end of the village forms the north- south running Interstate 255, which forms a feeder road to Interstate 55. By the Pontoon Beach Illinois State Routes 3 ​​, 111, 162 and 203 as well as a number of minor roads lead.

In the south of the village run multiple parallel railway lines in northeast -southwest direction.

The city of St. Louis is approximately 20 km south-west of Pontoon Beach, Illinois ' capital Springfield is accessible via Interstate 55 around 140 km in a north - northeasterly direction.

Demographic data

In the census of 2000 a population of 5,620 was determined. These distributed to 2,134 households in 1,519 families. The population density was 265.1 / km ². There were 2,343 residential buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 110.5 / km ².

The population consisted in 2000 of 87.7 % White, 8.9% Black or African American, 0.6 % Native Americans, 0.8 % Asian and 0.7 % other. 1.3 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 1.9% of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.

The population was spread out with 28.2 percent under the age of 18, 11.0 percent from 18 to 24, 30.6 percent 25-44 years, 21.8 percent from 45 to 64 years and 8.4 percent of 65 years or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females residents were statistically 96.5 male, in the over 18 -year-old 91.9.

The median household income was $ 38,348, the median family income was $ 45,947. The per capita income in Fairmont City was $ 15,960. 8.7 % of families and 10.6 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.

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