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Essex, Illinois

Field	Value
name	Essex, Illinois
settlement_type	Village
image_map	File:Kankakee County Illinois Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Essex Highlighted.svg
map_caption	Location of Essex in Illinois
image_map1	Illinois in United States (US48).svg
map_caption1	Location of Illinois in the United States
coordinates
coordinates_footnotes
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Illinois
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Kankakee
subdivision_type3	Township
subdivision_name3	Essex
established_title	Founded
leader_title	Mayor
leader_title1	Village president
unit_pref	Imperial
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	6.09
area_total_sq_mi	2.35
area_land_km2	6.03
area_land_sq_mi	2.33
area_water_km2	0.07
area_water_sq_mi	0.03
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	591
population_as_of	2020
population_total	841
population_density_km2	139.54
population_density_sq_mi	361.41
timezone1	CST
utc_offset1	-6
timezone1_DST	CDT
utc_offset1_DST	-5
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	60935
area_code_type	Area codes
area_code	815 & 779
blank_name	FIPS code
blank_info
blank1_name	GNIS ID
blank1_info	2398841
blank2_name_sec2	Wikimedia Commons
website

Essex is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 841 at the 2020 census, up from 802 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Kankakee-Bradley, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Ira M. Lish (1855–1937), Illinois politician and lawyer, was born in Essex.

Unlike earlier underground coal mines exploited by coal miners living in the now lost, nearby settlements of Tracy, Oklahoma and Clarke City, open-pit mines were established near Essex.

Geography

Essex is located in western Kankakee County 19 mi northwest of Kankakee, the county seat, and 7 mi south of Braidwood.

According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Essex has a total area of 2.35 sqmi, of which 2.33 sqmi (or 98.94%) is land and 0.03 sqmi (or 1.06%) is water.

Demographics

There were 355 households, out of which 40.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.76% were married couples living together, 4.79% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.97% were non-families. 20.28% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.35% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.47 and the average family size was 3.05.

The village's age distribution consisted of 31.4% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $81,458, and the median income for a family was $101,125. Males had a median income of $78,500 versus $32,059 for females. The per capita income for the village was $35,914. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.9% of those under age 18 and 12.5% of those age 65 or over.

References

"2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau.
{{GNIS. 2398841
"Explore Census Data".
(April 2020}}{{cbignore). "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Essex village, Illinois". U.S. Census Bureau.
'Illinois Blue Book 1911-1912,' Biographical Sketch of Ira M. Lish, p. 204-205
Klasey, Jack. (June 18, 2016). "These Kankakee County towns vanished with hardly a trace".
US Census Bureau. "Gazetteer Files".
"Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov.

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