Alhambra is a village in
Madison County,
Illinois
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,
United States
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. The population was 622 at the 2020 census.
Alhambra is part of the
Metro-East
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region of the
St. Louis
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,
MO-IL
Metropolitan Statistical Area
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.
History
Alhambra was laid out in 1849. The name was inspired by ''
Tales of the Alhambra
''Tales of the Alhambra'' (1832) is a collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories by American author Washington Irving (1783–1859) inspired by, and partly written during, his 1828 visit to the palace/fortress complex known as the Alhambr ...
'' by
Washington Irving
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.
The first cooperative
soybean
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Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu an ...
processing unit in Illinois, the Alhambra Grain & Feed Co., was located in the village. It began full production on March 1, 1945.
[''Soybean Digest'', May 1945, p. 14.]
Geography
Alhambra is located in northeastern Madison County at (38.888614, -89.732616).
Illinois Route 140
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passes through the village as Main Street, leading west to
Hamel and east to
Greenville.
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
, is to the southwest.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, Alhambra has a total area of , of which , or 1.05%, are water.
The village drains southwest to Silver Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the
Kaskaskia River
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.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 630 people, 209 households, and 145 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 216 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 98.73%
White
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, and 1.27% from two or more races.
There were 209 households, out of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% were
married couples
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living together, 5.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.6% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 17.1% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 34.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females, there were 78.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 70.0 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $36,818, and the median income for a family was $53,214. Males had a median income of $31,484 versus $22,981 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the village was $16,124. About 3.1% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 4.1% of those under age 18 and 10.6% of those age 65 or over.
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Villages in Madison County, Illinois
Villages in Illinois
1849 establishments in Illinois