Bejou, Minnesota

Mahnomen County

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Bejou is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Mahnomen County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Bejou had 89 inhabitants.

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

Geography

Bejou lies in the central northwestern Minnesota at 47 ° 26'29 " north latitude and 95 ° 58'34 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 1.04 km ².

Neighbouring places of Bejou are Winger (11.1 km to the north ) and Mahnomen (14,1 km to the south).

The nearest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (308 km north- north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior (348 km east), Minneapolis (392 km south-east ) and Fargo, North Dakota (125 km southwest).

The border with Canada is located 191 km north.

Traffic

U.S. Highway 59 runs north -south direction as the main road through Bejou. 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 21.5 km south of a small regional airport. The nearest international airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (121 km southwest), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (315 km north- north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (416 km south-east ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Bejou 89 people in 37 households. The population density was 85.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 37 households lived statistically 2.41 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 76.4 percent White, 18.0 percent Native American and 1.1 percent (one person) Asians; 4.5 percent were descended from two or more races.

22.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.5 percent were 65 years or older. 47.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 26,667. The per capita income was $ 12,516. 48.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.