Glencoe (Minnesota)

McLeod County

27-23948

Glencoe is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of McLeod County in the central southern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Glencoe had 5631 inhabitants.

Geography

Glencoe is located at 44 ° 46'09 " north latitude and 94 ° 09'06 " west longitude and extending over 8.37 km ².

Towns nearby Glencoe are Biscay (12.5 km to the northwest ), Plato (9.6 km east), Green Isle (21,4 km southeast), New Auburn (14,2 km southwest) and Brownton (17,6 km to the west ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis ( 86.8 km ENE ), Minnesota's capital city of Saint Paul (99 km in the same direction), Rochester (207 km southeast), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (304 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 369 km north-west ).

Traffic

The main artery of road transport forms the west-east direction passing through the urban area U.S. Highway 212 in the city center, the Minnesota State Routes 2 and 22 meet each other. All other roads within Glencoe are minor roadways or urban roads.

In parallel to U.S. 212 passes the main line of the Twin Cities and Western Railroad.

With the Glencoe Municipal Airport is a small airfield located 6.5 km east of Glencoe. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 84.2 km to the east).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Glencoe 5631 people in 2220 households. The population density was 672.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2220 households lived statistically 2.48 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 92.0 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 4.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 14.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.5 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 48,667. The per capita income was $ 24,155. 10.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.