Braham (Minnesota)

Isanti County Kanabec County

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Braham is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Isanti County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. A small part of the metropolitan area extends into the Kanabec County. In 2010, Braham had 1793 inhabitants.

Braham is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Minneapolis -Saint Paul.

Geography

Braham is located in eastern Minnesota at 45 ° 43'22 " north latitude and 93 ° 10'15 " west longitude and extending over 4.2 km ².

Towns nearby Braham are Grasston (8.5 km north- north-east ), Rock Creek ( 20.5 km ENE ) Rush City (21 km east-southeast ), Grandy (10,5 km south) and Andree (5 miles west).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (89 km south), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 98.3 km in the same direction), Duluth Lake Superior (165 km northeast) and Eau Claire, Wisconsin (219 km southeast).

Traffic

The Minnesota State Route 107 runs north -south direction as the main road through the city. All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.

Parallel to the MN 107 runs a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.

The nearest airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (105 km south).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Braham 1793 people in 708 households. The population density was 426.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 708 households lived statistically 2.52 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 96.7 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.1 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 2.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

30.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.8 percent were 65 years or older. 53.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 42,188. The per capita income was $ 18,617. 21.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.