Clarkfield, Minnesota
Yellow Medicine County
27-11656
Clark Field is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Yellow Medicine County in the southwest of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Clark Field had 863 inhabitants.
Geography
Clark Field is located at 44 ° 47'26 " north latitude and 95 ° 48'31 " west longitude and extending over 2.82 km ².
Towns nearby Clark Field are Montevideo ( 22.5 km NNE ) Granite Falls ( 21.9 km to the east), Hazel Run ( 11.2 km to the southeast ), St. Leo (27,4 km southwest) and Boyd ( 14.2 km to the northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (222 km east), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (238 km in the same direction), Rochester (335 km south-east ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (183 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota (285 km north-northwest ).
Traffic
In Clarkfield cross U.S. Highway 59 and Minnesota State Route 67 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or urban roads.
In northwest-southeast direction, a railway line of the BNSF Railway through the center of Clark Field runs.
The Granite Falls Municipal Airport is 26 km east of Clark Field. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (219 km east).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010, lived in Clark Field 863 people in 372 households. The population density was 306 people per square kilometer. In the 372 households lived statistically 2.19 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.6 percent White, 0.2 percent ( two) Black or African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.1 percent (one person) Asians and 3.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 52.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 24.9 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 37,500. The per capita income was $ 23,058. 16.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.