Morton, Illinois Location of Morton inside Illinois Location of Morton inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Morton, Illinois Morton is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States, known for its pumpkins and annual Pumpkin Festival.
Morton is also home to the corporate command posts of Morton Buildings Inc.
It holds its annual Morton Pumpkin Festival in the second week of September.
Morton is the town/city east of East Peoria on I-74.
It is claimed that 85 percent of the world's canned pumpkin is produced in Morton, earning it the designation "Pumpkin Capital of the World". Morton has garnered a range of recognition related to character of life in recent years.
Morton High School is persistently ranked among the top schools in the state and country.
Family Circle periodical ranked Morton one of its "10 best suburbs for families" in 2013.
According to the 2010 census, Morton has a total region of 12.994 square miles (33.65 km2), of which 12.95 square miles (33.54 km2) (or 99.66%) is territory and 0.044 square miles (0.11 km2) (or 0.34%) is water. In the village, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the village was $70,878, and the median income for a family was $87,800.
About 3.3% of families and 4.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.9% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.
Morton's economy has been shaped by its adjacency to both east/west and north/south interstates (I74, I474, I155, I55), central locale between Chicago, St.
Morton is a net importer of workforce due to the high concentration of primary employers and has an unemployment rate (approximately 4%) below the regional, state and nationwide averages.
Morton Community Unit School District 709 is the small-town enhance school district; it has one high school (Morton High School), one junior high school for grades seven and eight, and four major schools for kindergarten through undertaking six.
Private schools in the village are Blessed Sacrament and Bethel Lutheran, both private undertaking schools with preschool through eighth grade.
"Morton, Illinois".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Municipalities and communities of Tazewell County, Illinois, United States Armington Creve Coeur Deer Creek Goodfield Green Valley Hopedale Mackinaw Minier Morton North Pekin South Pekin Tremont Boynton Cincinnati Deer Creek Delavan Dillon Elm Grove Fondulac Groveland Hittle Hopedale Little Mackinaw Mackinaw Malone Morton Pekin Sand Prairie Spring Lake Tremont Washington
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