Waubun, Minnesota

Mahnomen County

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Waubun is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Mahnomen County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Waubun had 400 inhabitants.

The city is located, as well as the county, within the White Earth Indian Reservation of the Anishinabe.

Geography

Waubun is located in the central northwestern Minnesota at 47 ° 10'50 " north latitude and 95 ° 56'21 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 1.32 km ².

Neighbouring places of Waubun are Mahnomen (17 km north) and Ogema (9,9 km south).

The nearest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba ( 338 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior (335 km east), Minneapolis ( 363 km southeast) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 98.7 km southwest ).

The border with Canada is located 222 km north.

Traffic

At the southeastern edge of the cross extending in a north-south U.S. Highway 59 and Minnesota State Route 200 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.

In parallel to U.S. 59 runs a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The Mahnomen County Airport is located 9.6 km north a small regional airport. The nearest international airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (95 km southwest), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport ( 346 km north-northwest ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 386 km southeast).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Waubun 400 people in 160 households. The population density was 303 people per square kilometer. In the 160 households lived statistically 2.5 persons each.

The racial the population was composed of 46.0 percent White, 0.3 percent (one person) Black or African American, 33.3 percent Native American and 0.3 percent (one person) Asians; 20.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

31.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 50.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.8 percent were 65 years or older. 57.0 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 33,083. The per capita income was $ 19,571. 27.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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