Frazee (Minnesota)

Becker County

27-22472

Frazee is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Becker County in the central northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Frazee had 1350 inhabitants.

Geography

Frazee is on both sides of the Otter Tail River, one of the headwaters of the Red River of the North. The town is located at 46 ° 43'41 " north latitude and 95 ° 42'03 " west longitude and extending 2.87 km ².

Towns nearby Frazee are Rochert (15,7 km to the north), Perham (18,2 km southeast), Vergas (13.3 km southwest) and Detroit Lakes ( 16.3 km north west ).

The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota ( 89.6 km west-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior (315 km east) and Minneapolis (305 km south-east ).

The border with Canada is located 286 km north.

Traffic

Along the southwestern Ortsrandes runs the four-lane U.S. Highway 10 crosses the leading as this main road through the center of Frazee Minnesota State Route 87 All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.

In parallel to U.S. 10 runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway, on the upside and the Empire Builder Amtrak and inserts a stop in neighboring Detroit Lakes.

With the Detroit Lakes Airport is located 21.8 km north west a small regional airport. The nearest major airport is 328 km southeast location Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Frazee 1350 people in 540 households. The population density was 470.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 540 households lived statistically 2.39 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 88.1 percent white, 1.6 percent African American, 5.1 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 4.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.5 percent were 65 years or older. 54.6 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 34,714. The per capita income was $ 17,670. 19.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.