Prairie Township (Audrain County, Missouri)
Audrain County
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The Prairie Township is one of eight townships in Audrain County in the central north east of the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, Prairie Township had 932 inhabitants.
Geography
The Prairie Township is located about 80 km north of the Missouri River and about 70 km west of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois.
The Prairie Township is located at 39 ° 16 ' N, 91 ° 42' W39.262222222222 - 91.694722222222 and extends over 204.6 km ².
The Prairie Township is located in the north of Audrain County and is adjacent to the north-west and north-east to the Monroe County Ralls County. Within the Audrain County borders the Prairie Township on the east by the Cuivre Township, on the south by the Linn Township, to the southwest by the South Fork Township and on the west by the Salt River Township.
Traffic
In Prairie Township take the U.S. Highway 54 and the Missouri State Route 19 together. For all other roads within the Township is subordinate and partly unpaved roadways.
Due to the extreme south-east of the township runs a railway line of the Kansas City Southern, which runs from Springfield, Illinois to Kansas City.
With the Mexico Memorial Airport is located around 20 km south-west of Prairie Township, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is around 150 km east-southeast location Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Prairie Township 932 people in 386 households. The population density was 4.6 people per square kilometer. In the 386 households lived statistically 2.41 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 99.0 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American and 0.1 percent (one person) Asians; 0.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,669. The per capita income was $ 19,692. 11.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Towns
In addition to scattered settlement, the majority of residents living in the city Laddonia extending to a small extent to the south adjacent Linn Township.