Aitkin (Minnesota)
Aitkin County
27-00460
Aitkin is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Aitkin County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The census in April 2010, according to Aitkin had 2165 inhabitants.
Geography
Aitkin is located northeast of the geographical center of Minnesota along the left bank of the upper Mississippi River at 46 ° 31'59 " north latitude and 93 ° 42'37 " west longitude. The site extends over 5.7 km ².
Towns nearby are of Aitkin Palisade (31,8 km northeast), McGregor ( 36.8 km ENE ) and Deerwood (16,8 km southwest).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (201 km south), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (215 km south-southeast ), Eau Claire, Wisconsin ( 341 km southeast), Duluth Lake Superior (137 km east) and Fargo, North Dakota (267 km west ).
The border with Canada is located 270 km north.
Traffic
In Aitkin of U.S. Highway 169 and Minnesota State Routes 47 and 210 meet together. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In west-east direction, a railway line of the BNSF Railway runs through the town.
The nearest major airport is 225 km south to Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Aitkin 2165 people in 936 households. The population density was 379.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 936 households lived statistically 2.08 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.5 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 1.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 50.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.1 percent were 65 years or older. 54.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,294. The per capita income was $ 25,227. 17.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.