Bird Island (Minnesota)
Renville County
27-06076
Bird Iceland is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Renville County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Iceland Bird had 1042 inhabitants.
Geography
Bird Iceland is located in the central southwestern Minnesota at 44 ° 45'53 " north latitude and 94 ° 53'41 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 3.96 km ².
Towns nearby Bird of Iceland are Lake Lillian (20,4 km to the north), Hector (15,2 km to the east), Franklin ( 27 km south ) and Olivia (8.1 miles west).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (148 km east), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (160 km in the same direction), Rochester (256 km east-southeast ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines ( 460 km south-southeast ), Omaha, Nebraska ( 473 km south ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (244 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota (319 km north-west ).
Traffic
U.S. Highway 212 leads in west-east direction by Bird Lake and crosses in the center the Minnesota State Route 19, which runs as a main road in north-south direction. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
In west-east direction of a railway in the Twin Cities and Western Railroad runs through the urban area of Bird Iceland.
By Olivia Regional Airport is located 11 km west of a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (145 km east).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Bird Iceland 1042 people in 487 households. The population density was 263.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 487 households lived statistically 2.11 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.2 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.2 percent Asian, 0.2 percent and 1.2 percent other Polynesian ethnic groups; 0.9 descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,635. The per capita income was $ 28,014. 12.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.