Troy (Missouri)

Lincoln County

29-73942

Troy is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, Troy had 10,540 inhabitants.

Troy is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Greater St. Louis.

Geography

The city is located at 38 ° 58'46 " north latitude and 90 ° 58'51 " west longitude and extending 15.4 km ². Along the north-eastern outskirts of the city flows the Cuivre River, a right tributary of the Mississippi. Around two kilometers northeast of Troy is the Cuivre River State Park, a 25.87 km ² leisure and recreation area.

Towns nearby Troy are on the south-eastern outskirts adjoining Moscow Mills, Wright City ( 19.8 km SSW ), Hawk Point (14,1 km west ), Briscoe (17,3 km to the north), Winfield ( 23.8 km east ) and Fountain N 'Lakes (17 km east-southeast ).

The city of St. Louis is located 89.1 km south east of Troy. The other nearest major cities are Kansas City ( 339 km west ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines ( 458 km north-west ), the Quad Cities ( 357 km north ), Chicago ( 525 km northeast ), Indiana's capital Indianapolis ( 467 km east ), Tennessee capital Nashville ( 569 km southeast) and Tennessee's largest city of Memphis ( 522 km south ).

Traffic

By Troy leads in a north-south direction of the U.S. Highway 61, the Missouri State Route 47 crosses the city center. All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roadways and innerörstädtische roads.

The nearest major airport is located 68.1 km south east Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 living in Troy 10,540 people in 3843 households. The population density was 684.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3843 households lived statistically 2.67 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 92.5 percent white, 3.1 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

30.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.8 percent were 65 years or older. 52.6 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 49,156. The per capita income was $ 20,752. 13 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Patrick Elzie, basketball coach
• Richard Henry Norton, politicians