Crystal (Minnesota)
Hennepin County
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Crystal is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Hennepin County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Crystal had 22 151 inhabitants.
Crystal is part of the metropolitan area of Minneapolis -Saint Paul.
Geography
Crystal is located in the north- western suburbs of Minneapolis at 45 ° 01'58 " north latitude and 93 ° 21'37 " west longitude and extending over 15.23 km ², spread over 14.97 km ² land and 0.26 km ² water surface.
Towns nearby Crystal are Brooklyn Park ( at the northern city limits ) Brooklyn Center (on the north-eastern city limits ), Robbinsdale ( at the eastern city limits ), Golden Valley ( on the southern and southeastern outskirts ) and New Hope (at the western city limits ).
The downtown Minneapolis is located 10.6 kilometers south-east; the center of Saint Paul, the capital of Minnesota, 33.6 km is located east-southeast.
Traffic
The four-lane Minnesota State Route 100 carries as a bypass west of the Twin Cities through the south-eastern parts of the city of Crystal. For all other roads are urban roads.
In Crystal cross two railway lines of the BNSF Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The nearest airport is in the north of the metropolitan area located Crystal Airport, the greater Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport is 35.3 kilometers southeast of Crystal.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Crystal 22 151 people in 9183 households. The population density was 1479.7 people per square kilometer. In the 9183 households lived statistically 2.39 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 78.1 percent white, 10.5 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 3.9 percent Asian and 3.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 6.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 61,171. The per capita income was $ 28,422. 10.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.