Olmsted is a village in Pulaski County, Illinois, along the Ohio River.

[4] The village is notable for located between two inter-state large cities of Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Paducah, Kentucky, which are ironically the two largest cities of the Cape Girardeau-Paducah-Harrisburg, MO-KY-IL designated TV market area.

As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 333 people, 139 households, and 85 families residing in the village.

36.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 16.9% of families and 21.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.8% of those under the age of eighteen and 16.9% of those 65 or over.