Wood Lake (Minnesota)

Yellow Medicine County

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Woodlake is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Yellow Medicine County in the southwest of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Woodlake had 439 inhabitants.

Geography

Woodlake is located at 44 ° 39'10 " north latitude and 95 ° 32'18 " west longitude and extending over 2.1 km ².

Neighbouring places of Woodlake are Granite Falls ( 18.3 km to the north), echo ( 13.7 km east-southeast ), Vesta (25.4 km to the southeast ), Cottonwood (15,6 km southwest) and Hanley Falls ( 10.1 km northwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (218 km east), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (234 km in the same direction), Rochester (287 km east-southeast ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (182 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 304 km north-northwest ).

Traffic

The Minnesota State Route 274 has its southern terminus on the western outskirts of Woodlake. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or urban roads.

In northwest-southeast direction, a railway line in the Minnesota Prairie Line runs through the center of Woodlake.

The Granite Falls Municipal Airport is located 14 km north of Woodlake. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (216 km east).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Woodlake 439 people in 181 households. The population density was 209 people per square kilometer. In the 181 households lived statistically 2.43 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 92.5 percent White, 4.6 percent Native American, and 1.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 7.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.4 percent were 65 years or older. 48.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 45,417. The per capita income was $ 23,702. 12.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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