Baxter (Minnesota)
Crow Wing County
27-04042
Baxter is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Crow Wing County in the northern center of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Baxter had 7610 inhabitants.
Geography
Baxter is located on the right bank of the upper Mississippi River at 46 ° 20'54 " north latitude and 94 ° 16'07 " west longitude. The city covers 53.41 km ², spread over 47.63 km ² land and 5.78 km ² water surface.
Towns nearby Baxter Brainerd are ( on the northeastern, eastern and southeastern outskirts ), Pillager (17,1 km west ), East Gull Lake ( 14.5 km to the northwest ) and Nisswa (22,1 km to the north).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (202 km south-southeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (221 km in the same direction), Eau Claire, Wisconsin (350 km south-east ), Duluth Lake Superior (188 km east-northeast ) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 217 km west-northwest ).
The border with Canada is located 285 km north.
Traffic
In Baxter, the leading north to south Minnesota State Route 371 crosses the running in the east-west direction Minnesota State 210 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Parallel to the MN 210 runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway.
With the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport is located 12.8 km east-northeast of Baxter a small regional airport. The nearest major airport is 226 km south-southeast location Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Baxter 7610 people in 2963 households. The population density was 159.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2963 households lived statistically 2.55 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.5 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.4 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.
27.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 59,643. The per capita income was $ 30,885. 4.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.