Salt River Township (Audrain County, Missouri)
Audrain County
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The Salt River Township is one of eight townships in Audrain County in the central north east of the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, the Salt River Township had 9497 inhabitants.
Geography
The Salt River Township is located about 70 km north of the Missouri River and about 90 km west of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois.
The Salt River Township is located at 39 ° 11 ' N, 91 ° 54' W39.176111111111 - 91.895833333333 and extends over 289.21 km ², spread over 288.07 km ² land and 1.14 km ² water surface.
The Salt River Township is located in the center of the Audrain County and extends from the northern border to the Monroe County up to the southern border of the Callaway County by the county. Within the Audrain County, the Salt River Township is bordered to the northeast on the Prairie Township, on the east by the South Fork Township and on the west by the Wilson Township.
Traffic
In Salt River Township of U.S. Highway 54 and the Missouri State Routes 15 and 22 come together. For all other roads within the Township is subordinate and partly unpaved roadways.
Through the Salt River Township run railway lines of the Norfolk Southern Railway from St. Louis to Kansas City and the Kansas City Southern of Springfield in Illinois also to Kansas City.
With the Mexico Memorial Airport is located about 5 km east of the Salt River Township, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is about 160 km east-southeast location Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in the Salt River Township 9497 people in 3920 households. The population density was 33 people per square kilometer. In the 3920 households lived statistically 2.38 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 91.1 percent white, 4.9 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 1.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.8 percent were 65 years or older. 52.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 44,221. The per capita income was $ 21,891. 14 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Towns
In addition to scattered settlement, the majority of residents living in the city of Mexico, which extends to a smaller portion to the east adjacent South Fork Township.