Sorento is a village in Bond County, Illinois, United States. The population was 429 at the 2020 census. Sorento is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also considered part of the Metro East region of Illinois. History Sorento was founded as a village in 1882. The town was laid out and platted on August 15, 1882 by August H. Scharf, a local farmer and businessman, and his father, William Scharf. They named the town Sorento after Sorrento, Florida, a town they had once visited. The town grew quickly and by the end of 1883 there were over 500 residents. The Sorento Coal Mine opened in 1883 and was in operation until March 31, 1914. Charles Lindbergh is known to have landed in fields just outside Sorento while preparing for his solo transatlantic flight. Jimmy Swaggart preached at the Sorento Assembly of God church in the early 1960s. Famed cave explorer Floyd Collins is known to have visited Sorento and explored caves in the region during the early 1900s. Education Sorento is home to the Sorento Elementary School which educates students ages pre-K through 8th grade. Sorento Elementary was a 2011 Blue Ribbon school, one of only 19 schools in Illinois and 304 in the entire United States. Geography Sorento is located at (38.999264, -89.573809). According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Sorento has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 429 people, 216 households, and 114 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 201 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 91.38% White, 0.70% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.70% from other races, and 6.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.10% of the population. There were 216 households, out of which 22.69% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.04% were married couples living together, 12.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.22% were non-families. 38.89% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.81% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.04 and the average family size was 2.31. The village's age distribution consisted of 21.8% under the age of 18, 2.2% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to