The Charleston–Mattoon, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the

United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...

, is an area consisting of Coles County in central

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

, anchored by the cities of Charleston and Mattoon. As of the 2000 census, the area had a population of 64,449 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 62,781).

Counties

* Coles

Communities

Places with more than 20,000 inhabitants

Places with 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants

* Charleston (Principal city) * Mattoon (Principal city)

Places with 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants

Ashmore Ashmore is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, southwest of Salisbury. There are grounds for believing Ashmore to be a Romano-British village which has survived without a break to the present day. The village is centred on a circ ...

Oakland Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is ...

Places with less than 500 inhabitants

Humboldt Humboldt may refer to: People * Alexander von Humboldt, German natural scientist, brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt * Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, philosopher, and diplomat, brother of Alexander von Humboldt Fictional characters * Hu ...

Lerna In classical Greece, Lerna () was a region of springs and a former lake located in the municipality of the same name, near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Even though much of the area is marshy, Lerna is located on a geogra ...

Unincorporated places

* Etna *

Loxa ''Loxa'' is an insect genus in the large family of Pentatomidae, shield bugs. It occurs primarily in Central America and Mexico, but is also found in Texas, Florida and South America. While ''Loxa'' is a genus of the tribe Pentatomini, its spec ...

Townships

Coles County

* Ashmore Township * Charleston Township * East Oakland Township * Humboldt Township * Hutton Township * Lafayette Township * Mattoon Township * Morgan Township * North Okaw Township * Paradise Township * Pleasant Grove Township * Seven Hickory Township

Demographics

As of the

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

of 2000, there were 64,449 people, 25,411 households, and 15,161 families residing within the μSA. The racial makeup of the μSA was 95.98%

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...

, 1.90%

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

, 0.20% Native American, 0.68% Asian, 0.04%

Pacific Islander Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe th ...

, 0.38% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races.

Hispanic The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, Hispanic and Latino Americans, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an Ethnici ...

or Latino of any race were 1.25% of the population. The median income for a household in the μSA was $44,206, and the median income for a family was $49,576. Males had a median income of $31,804 versus $20,965 for females. The

per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...

for the μSA was $17,162.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Charleston Mattoon, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area Geography of Coles County, Illinois Geography of Cumberland County, Illinois Micropolitan areas of Illinois