Janesville (Minnesota)

Waseca County

27-31706

Janesville is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Waseca County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Janesville had 2256 inhabitants.

Geography

Janesville is located in southern Minnesota at 44 ° 07'04 " north latitude and 93 ° 42'29 " west longitude. The site covers an area of 4.53 km ².

Towns nearby Janesville are Elysian (13,7 km to the north), Waterville (20,4 km northeast), Waseca ( 16.8 km east-southeast ), Waldorf (20,7 km to the south), Pemberton (17,8 km southwest), St. Clair ( 16.1 km west-southwest ), Eagle Lake ( 15.8 km WNW ) and Madison Lake ( 17.3 km to the northwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (123 km north-northeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (128 km in the same direction), Rochester (108 km east), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (352 km south-east ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (324 km south ), Omaha, Nebraska (476 km southwest), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (294 km west-southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (462 km north-west ).

Traffic

The four-lane U.S. Highway 14 runs along the southern edge of Janesville. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

Through the city of Janesville runs in east-west direction, a railroad line of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad.

With the Waseca Municipal Airport is located 15.2 km east-southeast a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (118 km north-northeast ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Janesville 2256 people in 889 households. The population density was 498 people per square kilometer. In the 889 households lived statistically 2.49 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.8 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 52,917. The per capita income was $ 21,809. 10.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.