Eitzen (Minnesota)
Houston County
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Eitzen is a small town in Houston County in southeastern Minnesota, one of the northern states of the United States.
Geography
Eitzen is centrally located in the south of Houston County, just 500 meters north of the state of Iowa. In the east, the border of the county as well as the state of Minnesota is formed by the 20 km distant Mississippi.
Closest towns to Eitzen around are the located in East just before the Mississippi New Albin (16 km), which is already in Iowa, the town lying in the Northwest Spring Grove (18 km of side roads, 24 km of the State 76 and State 44 ) and in the north the town of Caledonia (16 km), which can be reached directly via the leading by Eitzen State 76. is.
Demographic data
According to the 2000 Census, there were 229 people, 108 households, and 60 families residing in the city, which corresponds to a population density of 152 persons per square kilometer. The population consists of 100 % White.
Of the 108 households out of which 20.4 % have children under the age of 18 who lived in the household, 50.0 % were married couples living together or, at 1.9 % resulted in a woman without a man's household. 39.8 % of all households were made up of individuals and 25.9 % were 65 years of age or older. The average household size consisted of 2.12 persons and the average family size of 2.83 persons.
The age structure in Eitzen distributed to 22.3 % under the age of 18, 3.1 % from 18 to 24, 26.6 % from 25 to 44, 18.3% between 45 and 64 and 29.7 % of those are 65 years or older. The average age was 43 years. For every 100 females aged over 18 years, there were 85.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $ 29,688, and for a family was $ 36,607. Males had a median income of $ 26,250 compared with $ 16,667 for women. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,440. About 3.0 % of families and 3.5 % of the population were below the poverty line, with no one under the age of 18 and 2.9 % 65 years and above, this criterion fulfilled.
Events
The local Lion's Club organized annually by the third - fifth July at the 4th of July, the "Family Fun Fest " from. Main attractions here are a truck -pull races, a grand parade with fireworks at night and a tractor parade.