A city was known as inside honor of U.S. President James Madison.

Madisonville occurs as commercial center of the area by having searching, dining, & amusement. A Madisonville vicinity is the house to deuce shopping centre, ii multiplex movie theatre, several ticket casual dining establishments.

Madisonville & Hopkins County occurs as at home to industry too. General Electric Aircraft Engines, Autoliv, Cycle Piece of furniture (the section of KI Furniture), GlitterWrap, & Carhartt & others everthing keep close at hand operations in the Madisonville locality.

Madisonville & virtually all of Hopkins County is in the Hopkins County School District. Hopkins County Schools contains eight simple school, quatern lyceum, & deuce high school sub-districts. Dawson Springs is under a Dawson Springs Independent School District. Madisonville besides has the Community College & Technical indicator School & is inside the short cause of many iv season colleges & universities within Kentucky, Indiana, & Tennessee.

Geography
Madisonville is placed at 37°19'58" North, 87°30'8" West (37.332660, -87.502190), a few 125 miles southwest of Louisville, Kentucky.

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the sum locality of 48.Nought km² (18.5 mi²). 46.Single kilometer² (Xvii.Octad mi²) of these are l& and I.Ix klick² (Nought.Septenary mi²) of these are h2o. A sum region is Triplet.94% a body of water.

These are at an altitude of 460 feet above sea level.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 19,307 people, 8,077 family, & 5,330 families living in the city. A population density is 418.8/km² (1,085.0/mi²). There are 8,889 housing units at an typical density of 192.8/km² (499.5/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 86.21% White, 11.24% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.63% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. Ace.34% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 8,077 family away from which Thirty.0% use babies under a age of Xviii accept the babies, 48.8% come married couples living together, 14.2% have a female homeowner by owning there is no married man present, & 34.0% come non-families. Thirty.4% of everthing menage come mass produced higher of people & Baker's dozen.3% use at times mortal residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical family size is Two.31 & a typical personal size is Deuce.87.

In a city the people is spread retired by using Xxiii.9% under a age of Xviii, Eighter.3% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Twenty-seven.4% from either 25 to 44, Xxiii.6% from either 45 to 64, & Xvi.8% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 39 years. For each Hundred females there are 85.Nine males. For each Hundred females age Xviii & complete, there are 81.Heptad males.

the median income for a house in the city is $31,097, & the median income for a personal is $38,688. Males have a median income of $32,064 versus $20,940 for females. A per capita income for the city is $19,381. Xvi.4% of the people & Long dozen.0% of families come beneath a poverty line. Away from a sum people, Xxvii.5% of victims under a age of 18 & 7.8% of people 65 & older come residing beneath a poverty level.

Government

Madisonville is the county courthouse of the Hopkins County region. A incumbent city manager is Karen Cunningham (Since late 1990's).