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Decatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city, sometimes called "the Soybean Capital of the World," was founded in 1823 and is located along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in in Central Illinois. In 2000 the city population was 81,500. According to Sperling's Best Places, Decatur's metropolitan area population is 109,309. Decatur has many older restored homes and restored downtown commercial areas.[citation needed] In the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy, Decatur has experienced some population sprawl as new development activity grows to the outer Decatur metro area, seemingly blurring the detectable boundaries of contiguous city limits of neighboring communities Mount Zion, Harristown, Forsyth, and Maroa...
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General Information
| Macon |
County | 93,058 |
Population (as of 2000) |
| Illinois |
State | 88,939 |
Population (current) |
| 143.8 |
Square Miles of Land | 1.8 |
Average Persons Per Household (as of 2000) |
| 0.2 |
Square Miles of Water | $64,733 |
Average House Value (as of 2000) |
|
| $28,296 |
Average House Income (as of 2000) |
Business Information
| 2,197 |
Number of Businesses (as of 2003) | $328,282,000 |
Total First Quarter Payroll (as of 2003) |
| 41,433 |
Number of Employees (as of 2003) | $1,367,141,000 |
Total Annual Payroll (as of 2003) |
Gender (as of 2000)
Ethnicity (as of 2000)
Median Ages (as of 2000)
