Clear Lake (South Dakota)

Deuel County

46-12540

Clear Lake is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Deuel County in the U.S. state of South Dakota. In 2010, Clear Lake had 1273 inhabitants.

Geography

Clear Lake is on the western shore of Clear Lake, in eastern South Dakota, near the border with Minnesota. The geographic coordinates of Clear Lake 44 ° 44'45 " north latitude and 96 ° 40'57 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 8.42 km ², spread over 7.95 km ² land and 0.47 km ² water surface.

Towns nearby Clear Lake are Altamont (10,4 km to the north ), Gary ( 24.2 km ENE ), Brandt ( 15.3 km SSE ) and Goodwin ( 27.1 km to the northwest ).

The nearest major cities are Sioux Falls (148 km south), Fargo, North Dakota (261 km north ) and Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis (300 km east).

Traffic

On the southern edge of the urban area of ​​Clear Lake as the main road running in a north-south direction through the city center South Dakota Highway 15 crosses the South Dakota Highway 22 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.

With the Clear Lake Municipal Airport is located on the northern outskirts of a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Sioux Falls Regional Airport (144 km south-southeast ), the Hector International Airport in Fargo (271 km north ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (298 km east).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Clear Lake in 1273 people in 552 households. The population density was 160.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 552 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.

The racial sat the population from 97.6 percent White, 0.4 percent African American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 47,813. The per capita income was $ 21,353. 5.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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