Ashby (Minnesota)
Grant County
27-02422
Ashby is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Grant County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Ashby had 446 inhabitants.
Geography
Ashby is located in western Minnesota, surrounded by extensive lakes at 46 ° 05'35 " north latitude and 95 ° 49'03 " west longitude. The site covers 1.53 km ².
Towns nearby Ashby are Dalton (12,2 km northwest ), Evansville (15,6 km southeast) and Elbow Lake (23,3 km southwest).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (137 km north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 333 km east-northeast ), Minneapolis (256 km southeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (274 km in the same direction) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( 354 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
About 5 km from the southwestern outskirts runs Interstate 94, which forms the shortest route between the Twin Cities and Fargo here. Thanks to the southwest of the urban area of Ashby runs in northeast -southwest direction, the Minnesota State Route 78, the main road and its northwestern and western extensions make minor country roads. All other roads are mostly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In northwest -southeast direction through the urban area of Ashby on the route of a former railway line of the Burlington Northern Railroad to the Central Lakes State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
With the Elbow Lake Municipal - Pride of the Prairie Airport is 24 km south-west of a small regional airport. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (279 km southeast).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ashby 446 people in 197 households. The population density was 291.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 197 households lived statistically 2.26 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.3 percent white, 1.8 percent African Americans, 0.4 percent ( two people) and Asians 0.2 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 50.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 25.6 percent were 65 years or older. 53.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 45,833. The per capita income was $ 23,246. 15.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.