Estherville, Iowa

Emmet County

19-25860

Estherville is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Emmet County in the north of the U.S. state of Iowa. In the census in 2010 Estherville had 6360 inhabitants.

Geography

Estherville is located in northern Iowa about 11 km south of the border with Minnesota. The city is located on both sides of the upper Des Moines River at 43 ° 24'16 " north latitude and 94 ° 50'1 " west longitude and extends over 13.5 km ².

On the southwestern outskirts of Fort Defiance State Park, a 77 acre leisure and recreation area begins. The Iowa Great Lakes are located in the neighboring Dickinson County approximately 25 km west of Estherville.

Neighboring towns of Estherville are Superior (10,3 km west-northwest ), Petersburg in Minnesota ( 22.3 km NNW ), Gruver (11.1 km to the east ) and Wallingford (10,6 km to the south ).

The nearest large towns are Iowa's capital Des Moines (302 km south-east ), Nebraska's largest city, Omaha (321 km southwest), South Dakota's largest city Sioux Falls (182 miles west), Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis (263 km northeast) and Rochester in Minnesota (247 km east-northeast ).

Traffic

In the center of Estherville of running in a north-south direction Iowa Highway 4 crosses the Iowa Highway 9

In Estherville several train lines of different railway companies come together.

The Estherville Municipal Airport is located 7 kilometers east of the city.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Estherville 6360 people in 2642 households. The population density was 471.1 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 90.6 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 11.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the 2642 households lived statistically 2.29 per person.

23.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.0 percent were 65 years or older. 49.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 40,216. The per capita income was $ 21,860. 16.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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