Litchfield (Minnesota)

Meeker County

27-37448

Litchfield is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Meeker County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Litchfield had 6726 inhabitants.

Geography

Litchfield is located on Lake Ripley in south-central Minnesota at 45 ° 07'29 " north latitude and 94 ° 31'33 " west longitude. The city covers 13.99 km ², spread over 11.47 km ² land and 2.52 km ² water surface.

Towns nearby Litchfield are Eden Valley ( 23.3 km north ), Kingston (24,8 km northeast), Darwin ( 10.8 km east-southeast ), Cedar Mills (22,7 km to the south) and Grove City ( 14.5 km west-northwest ).

The nearest large towns are the Twin Cities (107 km east), Des Moines, Iowa ( 485 km south-southeast ), Omaha, Nebraska ( 531 km south-southwest ), Fargo, North Dakota (297 km north-west ) and Duluth at the westernmost point of Lake Superior (299 km northeast).

Traffic

In the city of Litchfield take the U.S. Highway 12 and Minnesota State Route 22 together. All other streets within the city are subordinate roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.

In northwest-southeast direction, a railway line of the BNSF Railway through the city of Litchfield runs.

The Litchfield Municipal Airport is a small airfield on the southeastern outskirts. The nearest major airport is 124 km to the east Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010, lived in Litchfield 6726 people in 2747 households. The population density was 586.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2747 households lived statistically 2.37 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.8 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 2.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 7.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 47,637. The per capita income was $ 22,781. 14.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.