Dexter (Iowa)

Dallas County

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Dexter is a city in Dallas County in the center of the U.S. state of Iowa and part of the metropolitan region around Iowa's capital Des Moines. In 2000, Dexter had 689 inhabitants.

Geography

Dexter is located at 41 ° 30'56 " north latitude and 94 ° 13'38 " west longitude. The city covers an area of ​​3.1 km ², which consists exclusively of land area.

Dexter is located north of Interstate 80, west of the town until then with this common running U.S. Highway 6 branches off from the.

Iowa's capital Des Moines is 54 km to the east, Omaha 171 km to the west, Kansas City, Missouri 337 km to the south and Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota, 445 km to the north.

History

Dexter was founded in 1868.

The city was known by a shooting that yielded 1933 members as outlined by Bonnie and Clyde Barrow gang to the police pulled in from everywhere in July.

Dexter was on 18 September 1948, the place where President Harry S. Truman during a competition in plowing gave a speech in which he sharply attacked the Congress and thus attracted considerable attention among the farmers of the country. This speech was one of the most important during the election campaign in 1948, which helped Truman to a further term of office.

Demographic data

In the census of 2000 a population of 689 was determined. These were distributed to 259 households in 190 families. The population density was 223.5 / km ². There were 270 buildings, which corresponds to a site density of 87.6 / km ².

The population was in 2000 from 97.82 % White, 0.29% Native Americans, 1.31 % Asian, and 0.29% other. 0.29 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 1.16% of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.

28.3 % were under the age of 18, 5.8 % from 18 to 24, 29.3% 25-44, 21.6% from 45 to 64 and 15.4 % 65 and older. The average age was 36 years. For every 100 females were statistically 99.7 men in the over 18 -year-olds 96.0.

The average income per household was $ 39,375, the average family income is $ 44,861. Men's income averaged $ 30,395, and for women about $ 22,361. The per capita income amounted to $ 16,990. About 4.3 % of families and 4.6 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.