Ankeny (Iowa)
Polk County
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Ankeny is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Polk County in the center of the U.S. state of Iowa. In 2010, the city had 45,582 inhabitants.
Ankeny is part of the metropolitan area to Iowa's capital Des Moines.
Geography
Ankeny is located in the northern suburb of Des Moines area close to the western shore of Saylorville Lake dammed the Des Moines River. The city is located at 41 ° 43'47 " north latitude and 93 ° 36'21 " west longitude and extending over 75 km ².
Neighboring towns are Des Moines ( 17.8 km south from the city center ), Polk City ( 14.5 km north west ), Elkhart (11,3 km northeast), Bondurant (14,9 km to the southeast ), Berwick (10,2 km south-southeast ) and Saylorville (10,1 km southwest).
The nearest major cities are Cedar Rapids (181 km east-northeast ), Kansas City, Missouri ( 329 km south-southwest ), Nebraska's largest city, Omaha (241 km west-southwest ) and Minneapolis in Minnesota ( 377 km north ).
Traffic
East of the city center runs in a north -south Interstate 35, which connects the cities of Des Moines and Minneapolis each other. Running parallel to U.S. Highway 69 through the center of Ankeny.
The town has links to the rail network of the Union Pacific Railroad.
In the southeast of the urban area is the Ankeny Regional Airport; the nearest major airport is 27.6 kilometers south-southwest location Des Moines International Airport.
History
Was in 1875 by John Fletcher Ankeny Ankeny, a businessman from Des Moines, founded as a rural community. 1903 City of Ankeny was awarded status. 1940 allowed the U.S. government to build a munitions factory, which today serves as the manufacturing site of the agricultural machinery company John Deere.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ankeny 45,582 people in 16,308 households. The population density was 607.8 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 94.7 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 2.0 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 16,308 households lived statistically 2.57 per person.
27.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 71,963. The per capita income was $ 31,495. 4.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.