Chisago Lake Township, Chisago County, Minnesota

Chisago County

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Chisago Lake Township is a township in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States. In the year 2000 3276 inhabitants were counted in the Township.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ​​141.2 km ², of which 119.7 km ² land and 21.5 km ² ( = 15.26% ) is attributable to water. The township takes its name from the eponymous lake, where numerous species of fish are native. Among the fish species of the lake with the largest populations include pike, largemouth bass, black bass, sunfish, perch, glass eyes perch and various small edible fish ( " panfish "), even muskellunge and carp were observed by the Department of Natural Resources.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, there were Chisago Lake Township 3276 people. The population density was 27.4 people per km ². There were 1269 housing units at an average 10.6 per km ². The population Chisago Lake township consisted of 99.18 % White, 0.34 % African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.06 % Asian, 0 % Pacific Islander, % indicated other races, and 0, 03 % from two or more races. 0.27 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The residents of Chisago Lake Township spread across 0.82 households out of which live in 1127 % have children under the age of 18. 42.1% married couples living together, 74.8 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 3.6 % were non-families. 17.8% of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 14.3 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 4.0 and the average family size is 2.89.

The population was spread out with 3.21% minors, 30.3% 18-24 year olds, 5.4 % 25 -44- year-old, 31.4 % 45-64 year olds and 25.1 % under the age of 65 years or more. The median age was 7.8 years. For every 100 females there were 37 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 112.9 males.

The median household income in Chisago Lake Township was 112.1 U.S. dollars and the median family income reached the level of 65 858 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 67 458 U.S. dollars, compared to 45 867 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income for the U.S. dollar. 23 019 % of the population and 1.8 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 1.0 % of minors and 0.6 % of those age 65 or over.

In popular culture

Chisago Lake is the scene of part of the plot of the four-part Swedish novel cycle Utvandrarserien, which was filmed in the early 1970s with Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann.

Documents

• Township in Minnesota
• Location in North America
• Chisago County