Jasper (Minnesota)

Pipestone County rock County

27-31760

Jasper is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Pipestone and Rock County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Jasper had 633 inhabitants.

Geography

Jasper is located in southwestern Minnesota on the Coteau des Prairies mentioned plateau, which extends to the south to Iowa and South Dakota to the west. The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 51'00 Jasper " north latitude and 96 ° 23'55 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 2.28 km ².

Towns nearby Jasper are Ihlen (7.3 km north-east ), Trosky (15,9 km east-northeast ), Edgerton (24,2 km east), Hardwick (22,4 km southeast) and Sherman in South Dakota ( 16.1 km southwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis ( 328 km east-northeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 344 km in the same direction), Rochester ( 357 km east ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (480 km south-east ), Omaha, Nebraska ( 341 km south ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota ( 55.9 km southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (365 km north).

Traffic

In Jasper Minnesota State Routes 23 and 269 meet together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.

In parallel to MN 23 runs a railroad line of the Marshall Subdivision, which is operated by the BNSF Railway.

The Pipestone Municipal Airport is located 19.8 km north east a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Eppley Airfield near Omaha (333 km south) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 330 km east-northeast ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Jasper 633 people in 292 households. The population density was 277.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 292 households lived statistically 2.17 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 92.3 percent white, 1.4 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, and 3.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 51.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 22.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 28,906. The per capita income was $ 18,684. 13.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.