Eden Valley (Minnesota)

Stearns County Meeker County

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Eden Valley is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Meeker and Stearns County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Eden Valley had 1042 inhabitants.

Geography

Eden Valley is located in south-central Minnesota at 45 ° 19'32 " north latitude and 94 ° 32'45 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 3.16 km ².

Towns nearby Eden Valley are Richmond (17,1 km to the north), Cold Spring (21,2 km northeast), Watkins (12,1 km to the east), Paynesville ( 17.7 km WNW ) and Roscoe (21,1 km to the northwest ).

The nearest large towns are the Twin Cities (117 km east-southeast ), Des Moines, Iowa (505 km south), Omaha, Nebraska ( 549 km south-southwest ), Fargo, North Dakota (275 km north-west ) and Duluth at the westernmost point of Lake Superior (284 km northeast).

Traffic

At the heart of the Eden Valley Minnesota State Route 22 and Minnesota State Route 55 intersect All other streets within the city are subordinate roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.

In parallel to MN 55 runs a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the city of Eden Valley.

With the Paynesville Municipal Airport is a small airfield located 19.1 km west-northwest of Eden Valley. The nearest major airport is 138 km east-southeast location Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Eden Valley 1042 people in 434 households. The population density was 329.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 434 households lived statistically 2.4 persons each.

The racial the population was composed of 96.2 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.1 percent (one person) Asians and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

27.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.4 percent were 65 years or older. 48.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 32,500. The per capita income was $ 21,131. 25.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.