Jasper County, Illinois

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Jasper County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 9,287.[1] Its county seat is Newton.[2]

History

Jasper County was formed in 1831 out of Clay and Crawford Counties. It was named for Sgt. William Jasper, a Revolutionary War hero from South Carolina. During the defense of Fort Moultrie in 1776, the staff of the American flag was shot away. Sgt. Jasper attached the flag to a pole and stood on the wall waving the flag at the British until a new staff was erected.

Geography

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Climate and weather

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Demographics

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2020 census

Jasper County County, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition
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Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1980[5] Pop 1990[6] Pop 2000[7] Pop 2010[8] Pop 2020[9] % 1980 % 1990 % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
White alone (NH) 11,259 10,548 10,003 9,517 8,934 99.48% 99.43% 98.87% 98.13% 96.20%
Black or African American alone (NH) 2 1 8 10 22 0.02% 0.01% 0.08% 0.10% 0.24%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 8 11 6 12 19 0.07% 0.10% 0.06% 0.12% 0.20%
Asian alone (NH) 13 16 19 24 15 0.11% 0.15% 0.19% 0.25% 0.16%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH) x [10] x [11] 1 2 4 x x 0.01% 0.02% 0.04%
Other race alone (NH) 1 1 5 1 19 0.01% 0.01% 0.05% 0.01% 0.20%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) x [12] x [13] 27 53 190 x x 0.27% 0.55% 2.05%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35 32 48 79 84 0.31% 0.30% 0.47% 0.81% 0.90%
Total 11,318 10,609 10,117 9,698 9,287 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

2010 census

As of the 2010 United States census, there were 9,698 people, 3,940 households, and 2,800 families living in the county.[14] The population density was Template:Convert. There were 4,345 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert.[3] The racial makeup of the county was 98.6% white, 0.2% Asian, 0.1% American Indian, 0.1% black or African American, 0.3% from other races, and 0.6% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 0.8% of the population.[14] In terms of ancestry, 39.5% were German, 12.5% were American, 11.0% were Irish, and 9.1% were English.[15]

Of the 3,940 households, 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.1% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 28.9% were non-families, and 24.5% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.90. The median age was 42.7 years.[14]

The median income for a household in the county was $46,546 and the median income for a family was $53,034. Males had a median income of $39,167 versus $24,856 for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,467. About 6.3% of families and 8.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.6% of those under age 18 and 5.1% of those aged 65 or over.[16]

Education

Jasper County is largely served by Jasper County Community Unit School District 1, which is based in its county seat, Newton. Five of the district's six schools are located in Jasper County. Saint Thomas Catholic School is a private elementary school, also in Newton.

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Townships

Jasper County is divided into eleven townships:

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Notable residents

Politics

Jasper is politically a fairly typical "anti-Yankee" Southern Illinois county. Opposition to the "Yankee" Republican Party and that party's Civil War meant that Jasper County voted solidly Democratic until isolationist sentiment drove its voters to Warren G. Harding in 1920.

Since the New Deal, the county has shown a steady trend away from the Democratic Party due to major shifts in that party's views – initially on economic policies and since the 1990s on social issues.[17] Only one Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, has won a majority since 1940 in his 1964 landslide. It appears to be a statistical change in the Upland South, that Barack Obama in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 did not fare as well as previous Democratic candidates for president.

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See also

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  17. ↑ Cohn, Nate; ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’, New York Times, April 24, 2014
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