Faribault, Minnesota
Rice County
27-20546
Faribault is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Rice County in the central southeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Faribault had 23,352 inhabitants.
Faribault is part of the CSA ( Combined Statistical Area) Minneapolis -St. Paul -St. Cloud, the extended metropolitan region of Minneapolis -Saint Paul.
Geography
Faribault is located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, about 74 miles south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
In Faribault of the Straight River empties into the Cannon River, a right tributary of the Mississippi.
Along the city runs north -south Interstate 35 According to the United States Census Bureau, the area of the city is 33.3 square miles, of which 0.4 square miles of water.
History
Faribault was founded in 1852 by the fur trader Alexander Faribault. In the 1860s came to Faribault in terms of school and church sector to national importance, as Episcopal Bishop Henry Whipple of established a collaborative network of schools and churches.
In addition, the government established in 1863 schools for blind and deaf ( Minnesota State Academy for the Blind and Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf ) are located in Faribault. In addition to the Faribault Senior High School is above all the Shattuck -St. Mary's School, which is known as private boarding particularly by awarding scholarships for talented hockey player, of national importance.
Demographic files
According to the census in 2010 lived in Faribault 23,352 people in 8317 households. The population density was 709.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 8317 households lived statistically 2.5 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 82.6 percent white, 7.6 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 2.1 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 4.4 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 2.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 13.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.1 percent were 65 years or older. 45.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 47,952. The per capita income was $ 21,201. 17.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.