Brookings (South Dakota)
Brookings County
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Brookings is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Brookings County in the U.S. state of South Dakota. In 2010, Brookings had 22 056 inhabitants.
In the Brookings South Dakota State University, the largest with more than 12,000 students University of the State is located.
Geography
Brookings is located in eastern South Dakota, near the border with Minnesota. The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 18'41 Brookings ' north latitude and 96 ° 47'54 "west longitude. The city covers an area of 33.77 km ².
Towns nearby Brookings are White (25.4 km northeast), Bushnell (14,4 km to the east), Aurora ( 12.1 km east-southeast ), Medary (11,8 km to the south), Volga (11,3 km west) and Bruce (20,6 km northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Sioux Falls ( 95.6 km to the south), Fargo, North Dakota (306 km north) and Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis ( 346 km east ).
Traffic
The leading through the eastern parts of the city of Brookings Interstate 29 is the shortest route from Kansas City, Missouri to Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The U.S. Highway 14 leads in west-east direction as the main road through the center of Brooking. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.
In northwest-southeast direction, a Eisenbahnlstrecke the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through the city of Brookings.
In the western city area is located with the Brookings Regional Airport is a regional airport. The next airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (308 km north), the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (344 km east) and the Eppley Airfield near Omaha ( 376 km south ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Brookings 22 056 people in 8159 households. The population density was 653.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 8159 households lived statistically 2.29 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 92.1 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 3.7 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
16.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 75.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 8.4 percent were 65 years or older. 48.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,536. The per capita income was $ 20,023. 24.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.