Lake Benton, Minnesota

Lincoln County

27-34100

Lake Benton is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Lake Benton had 683 inhabitants.

The Norgaard Wind Project, a wind farm of the energy company Exelon, is located in Lake Benton.

Geography

Lake Benton is located in southwestern Minnesota at the southwestern end of the homonymous homonymous Eleven kilometers of the lake. The town is located at 44 ° 15'42 " north latitude and 96 ° 17'12 " west longitude. It covers 11.97 km ², spread over 9.79 km ² land and 2.18 km ² water surface.

The city is located about 10 km east of the border with South Dakota at the intersection of Highways U.S. 14 and U.S. 75th

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Lake Benton 683 people in 338 households. The population density was 69.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 338 households lived statistically 2.02 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.7 percent white and 0.1 percent (one person) African Americans; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.3 percent ( two persons ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

31.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 40.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 28.1 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 31,042. The per capita income was $ 25,590. 16.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.