Akeley (Minnesota)
Hubbard County
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Akeley is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Hubbard County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Akeley had 432 inhabitants.
Geography
Akeley is located in north-central Minnesota at the Eleventh Crow Wing Lake, the largest and lowest lake in the Crow Wing Chain of Lakes, one traversed by the Crow Wing River chain of lakes. The city is located at 47 ° 00'06 " north latitude, 94 ° 43'41 " west longitude and covers 3.88 km ².
Towns nearby are Walker of Akeley (16,6 km northeast), Hackensack (26,9 km to the southeast ) and Nevis (9,9 km south-west ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (165 miles west), Winnipeg, Canada ( 433 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior (225 km east) and Minneapolis (286 km southeast).
The border with Canada is located 228 km north.
Traffic
In the center of Akeley Minnesota State Routes 34 and 64 meet together. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to MN 34 runs through the city of Akeley on the route of a former railway route to the Heartland State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The 31.6 km south west Park Rapids Municipal - Konshok Field Airport is the nearest airport. The next airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (175 miles west), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (440 km north- north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (309 km south-east ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Akeley 432 people in 185 households. The population density was 111.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. The 185 households lived statistically 2.34 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 94.9 percent White, 0.2 percent (one person) Black or African American, 2.1 percent Native American and 0.9 percent Asian; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.9 percent were 65 years or older. 48.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 27,143. The per capita income was $ 18,160. 30.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.