Alhambra (Illinois)

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Alhambra
Alhambra (Illinois)
Alhambra
Alhambra
Location in Illinois
Basic data
State : United States
State : Illinois
County : Madison County
Coordinates : 38 ° 53 ′  N , 89 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 53 ′  N , 89 ° 44 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 681 (as of 2010)
Population density : 340.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 171 m
Postal code : 62003
Area code : +1 618
FIPS : 17-00737
GNIS ID : 403409

Alhambra is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Madison County in the west of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . In 2010 the Alhambra had 681 inhabitants.

The city is located in the eastern part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area called Metro-East around the city of St. Louis in neighboring Missouri .

geography

Alhambra is on the northeastern edge of the suburban area of ​​St. Louis. The Mississippi , which forms the border with the state of Missouri, is 22 miles to the west. The place is located at 38 ° 53'18 "north latitude and 89 ° 43'53" west longitude and extends over 2 km². The place is in the Alhambra Township .

Neighboring towns are Livingston (11.7 km north), New Douglas (14.8 km northeast), Grantfork (12.2 km southeast), Marine (15.2 km south-southwest), Hamel (9.9 km west) and Worden (14.6 km northwest). Downtown St. Louis is 59.2 km south.

traffic

Illinois State Route 140 runs through the Alhambra in a west-east direction . All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved inner-city roads.

The St. Louis Regional Airport is 30.2 km west, the larger Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport is 73.3 km southwest of the Alhambra.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census, the Alhambra had 681 people in 241 households. The population density was 340.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.37 people lived in each of the 241 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.8 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.4 percent of the population.

28.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 44.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 46,875  USD . The per capita income was $ 26,756. 8.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed July 3, 2012

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