Tazewell County, Illinois

administration
Tazewell County Courthouse, listed on the NRHP since 1985
US state :	Illinois
Administrative headquarters :	Pekin
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Tazewell County Courthouse 342 Court Street, Suite 6 Pekin, Illinois 61554-3298
Foundation :	January 31, 1827
Made up from:	Peoria County Fayette County
Area code :	001 309
Demographics
Residents :	135,394 (2010)
Population density :	80.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1704 km²
Water surface :	23 km²
map

Website : www.tazewell.com

The Tazewell County is a county in the US state of Illinois . At the 2010 census , the county had 135,394 residents and a population density of 80.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Pekin , which is named after the Chinese capital Beijing .

geography

The county is located northwest of the geographic center of Illinois on the left bank of the Illinois River . It has an area of 1704 square kilometers, of which 23 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Tazewell County:

Peoria County	Woodford County
Fulton County		McLean County
Mason County	Logan County

history

LW Tazewell

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	4716	-
1840	7221	53.1%
1850	12,052	66.9%
1860	21,470	78.1%
1870	27.903	30%
1880	29,666	6.3%
1890	29,556	-0.4%
1900	33,221	12.4%
1910	34,027	2.4%
1920	38,540	13.3%
1930	46,082	19.6%
1940	58,362	26.6%
1950	76.165	30.5%
1960	99,789	31%
1970	118,649	18.9%
1980	132.078	11.3%
1990	123.692	-6.3%
2000	128,485	3.9%
2010	135.394	5.4%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Tazewell County was formed on January 31, 1827 from parts of Peoria Counties and Fayette Counties. It was named after Littleton Waller Tazewell , a lawyer, Virginia delegate , US Senator, and 27th Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia .

The first white settler is believed to have been Robert Cavelier de La Salle in 1680 , who went ashore here with 33 other people in January on the east bank of the Illinois River and built a small camp near what is now the city of Pekin so that the group could winter.

Territorial development

Tazewell County from its founding in 1827 to 1829
1829 to 1830
1830 to 1831
1831 to 1841
1841 until today

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Tazewell County had 135,394 people in 53,727 households. The population density was 80.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.43 people lived in each of the 53,727 households.

The racial the population was composed of 96.2 percent white, 1.0 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.9 percent of the population.

23.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 54,232 USD . The per capita income was $ 27,036. 7.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Tazewell County localities

Citys

Pekin ¹
Washington

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partly in Peoria County

2 - partly in Woodford County}

structure

Tazewell County is divided into 19 townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Boynton Township	275	17-07627
Cincinnati Township	9506	17-14403
Deer Creek Township	1383	17-18953
Delavan Township	2061	17-19239
Dillon Township	1000	17-19941
Elm Grove Township	3093	17-23607
Fondulac Township	13,381	17-26636
Groveland Township	19,526	17-31940
Hittle Township	591	17-35359
Hopedale Township	1913	17-36139

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Little Mackinaw Township	1575	17-44017
Mackinaw Township	4454	17-45792
Malone Township	220	17-46266
Morton Township	17,036	17-50634
Pekin Township	29,807	17-58460
Sand Prairie Township	1441	17-67483
Spring Lake Township	1887	17-72130
Tremont Township	2641	17-75978
Washington Township	23,604	17-79046