Moose Lake, Minnesota
Carlton County
27-43954
Moose Lake is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Carlton County in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Moose Lake had 2751 inhabitants.
Geography
Moose Lake is located around the Moosehead Lake, which is drained by the Moose Horn River, a tributary of the Kettle River. The city is located at 46 ° 27'15 " north latitude and 92 ° 45'43 " west longitude. It covers 9.48 km ², spread over 8.47 km ² land and 1.01 km ² water surface.
Towns nearby Moose Lake are Barnum (8.5 km north-east ), Kerrick (25,5 km southeast), Sturgeon Lake ( 9.1 km south-west ) and Kettle River ( 12.3 km west-northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (183 km south-southwest ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (179 km in the same direction), Eau Claire, Wisconsin (297 km southeast), Duluth Lake Superior ( 71.6 kilometers north-east ) and Fargo, North Dakota (348 miles west).
The border with Canada is located 290 km north.
Traffic
Along the south-eastern edge of the Interstate 35 runs, the shortest route from the Twin Cities to Duluth. The Minnesota State Route 73 branches off to the southern terminus of the I 35 and then leads through the center of Moose Lake. The Minnesota State Routes 27, which runs through the center also reaches its eastern terminus at the next exit of I 35 north. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
On the route of a former railway line of the SOO Line Railroad, a rail trail runs through the city of Moose Lake.
4.9 km southwest of Moose Lake is the Moose Lake Carlton County Airport. The nearest major airport is 191 km south-southwest location Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Moose Lake 2751 people in 648 households. The population density was 324.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 648 households lived statistically 2.01 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 79.2 percent white, 14.4 percent African American, 3.7 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 4.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.8 percent were between 18 and 64, and 14.1 percent were 65 years or older. Only 26.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,485. The per capita income was $ 14,745. 26.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.