Savannah (Missouri)
Andrew County
29-6604
Savannah is a city and county seat of Andrew County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. In the census in 2010, Savannah had 5,057 inhabitants.
Savannah is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Saint Joseph.
Geography
Savannah is located at 39 ° 56'28 " north latitude and 94 ° 49'51 " west longitude and extending over 8.1 km ², which consist exclusively of land area.
Savannah is located in the northern suburban area of Saint Joseph and a few kilometers north-east of the Missouri River, which forms the border with Kansas.
Neighboring towns are Amazonia (9.6 km to the southwest ), Saint Joseph (27 km south), Cosby (23,7 km southeast), Rochester ( 17.6 km east-southeast ), Union Star ( 24.8 km east-northeast ), Rosendale (14,8 km to the north) and Fillmore (19,6 km northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Kansas City (103 km south), Kansas ' capital city Topeka (164 km southwest), Nebraska's capital city Lincoln (217 km north-west ), Nebraska's largest city, Omaha (205 km north-northeast ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (281 km northeast), Quincy, Illinois (350 km east) and Missouri's capital Jefferson City ( 363 km southeast).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Savannah 5,057 people in 2,056 households. The population density was 624.3 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 2,056 households lived statistically 2.36 per person.
25.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.1 percent were 65 years or older. 54.6 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 37,054. The per capita income was $ 19,633. 9.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Andrew J. Harlan (1815-1907) - Member of the U.S. - Repräsentantehhauses (1849-1851, 1853-1855) - lived long in Savannah
- Joseph Toole (1851-1929) - the fourth Governor of Montana (1889-1893) - born in Savannah