Liberty Township is one of twenty-two

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in Adams County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,379 and it contained 557 housing units.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.95%) is land and (or 0.05%) is water.

Cities

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

Cemeteries

The township contains sixteen cemeteries: Broady Family, Clark Family, Coats, Drescher Family, Elmwood Family, Grubb Family, Hughes Family, Liberty Old, Lierly, Nation, Pearce, Pleasant View, Saint Brigids, Walker, Williams Family and Xander.

Major highways

* Illinois State Route 104

Demographics

As of the 2020 census there were 1,379 people, 447 households, and 366 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 557 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 95.65%

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, 0.44%

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, 0.07% Native American, 0.07%

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, 0.00%

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, 0.44% from

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, and 3.34% from two or more races.

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of any race were 1.09% of the population. There were 447 households, out of which 41.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.79% were married couples living together, 14.09% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 18.12% were non-families. 18.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 2.87. The township's age distribution consisted of 29.6% under the age of 18, 1.9% from 18 to 24, 16.4% from 25 to 44, 40.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45.5 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.5 males. The median income for a household in the township was $76,042, and the median income for a family was $78,468. Males had a median income of $53,417 versus $39,258 for females. The

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for the township was $33,369. About 3.6% of families and 8.0% of the population were below the

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, including 16.9% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over.

School districts

* Liberty Community Unit School District 2

Political districts

Illinois' 18th congressional district The 18th congressional district of Illinois covered central and western Illinois, including all of Jacksonville and Quincy and parts of Bloomington, Peoria, and Springfield. It was last represented by Republican Darin LaHood, who took offi ...

* State House District 93 * State Senate District 47

References

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United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas

External links

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