Brooten, Minnesota
Stearns County Pope County
27-08092
Brooten is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Stearns and to a lesser extent in Pope County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Brooten had 743 inhabitants.
Geography
Brooten is located in west-central Minnesota at 45 ° 30'02 " north latitude and 95 ° 07'26 " west longitude. The urban area of Brooten covers an area of 4.07 km ².
Neighbouring places of Brooten are Elrosa (19,9 km northeast), Lake Henry ( 28.8 km east-southeast ), Belgrade (11,8 km southeast), Sunburg (26,1 km southwest) and Sedan (13,6 km northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (220 km north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior (321 km northeast), Minneapolis (169 km southeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (188 km in the same direction) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (303 km southwest).
Traffic
The Minnesota State Route 55 runs from northwest to southeast as the main road through Brooten. All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to MN 55 runs a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the city of Brooten.
With the Brooten Municipal Airport is located in the east of the urban area of Brooten a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (188 km southeast).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Brooten 743 people in 294 households. The population density was 182.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 294 households lived statistically 2.28 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.7 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 49.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 37,604. The per capita income was $ 18,970. 24.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.