Laporte (Minnesota)
Hubbard County
27-35612
Laporte is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Hubbard County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Laporte had 111 inhabitants.
Geography
Laporte is located in a lakeside scenery in north-central Minnesota at 47 ° 12'50 " north latitude and 94 ° 45'18 " west longitude. The site covers 1.81 km ².
Neighbouring places of Laporte Cass Lake (29,1 km northeast), Walker (19,6 km southeast) and Lake George (20,7 km west ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (192 km west-southwest ), Winnipeg, Canada (410 km north- north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior (234 km east-southeast ) and Minneapolis ( 314 km south-southeast ).
The border with Canada is located 205 km north.
Traffic
From west to south-east, the Minnesota State Route 34 runs as the main road through the city. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In northwest -southeast direction through the city of Laporte on the route of a former railway line of the Burlington Northern Railroad with the Paul Bunyan State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The 14.9 km Located southeast Walker Municipal Airport is the nearest airport. The next airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (205 km west-southwest ), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (417 km north- north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 338 km south-southeast ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Laporte 111 people in 55 households. The population density was 61.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 55 households lived statistically 2.02 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 87.4 percent White, 0.9 percent (one person) African Americans and 4.5 percent of Native Americans; 7.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 0.9 percent were ( a person ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
16.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 68.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.3 percent were 65 years or older. 45.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,375. The per capita income was $ 22,140. 10.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.