Mountain Lake, Minnesota

Cottonwood County

27-44566

Mountain Lake is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Cottonwood County in the central south-west of the U.S. State of Minnesota. In 2010, Mountain Lake had 2104 inhabitants.

Geography

Mountain Lake is located at Mountain Lake, a small lake on the northwestern suburbs. The city is located at 43 ° 56'20 " north latitude and 94 ° 55'47 " west longitude and extending over 4.01 km ².

Towns nearby Mountain Lake are Comfrey (20,9 km to the north ), Darfur (19,6 km northeast), Butterfield (12.5 km to the east ), Odin (23,7 km southeast) and Bingham Lake ( 10.5 km southwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (216 km northeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (230 km in the same direction), Rochester (225 km east), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (385 km south-east ), Omaha, Nebraska ( 375 km SSW ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (163 km west-southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (412 km north- north-west ).

Traffic

In west-east direction of the Minnesota State Route 60 runs as the main road through the city. Along the southern edge of a freeway bypass road for long distance service on the MN 60 All other roads within North Mankato are minor roadways or urban roads.

In parallel to MN 60 runs a railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad through the city center of Montain Lake.

The Windom Municipal Airport is located 15.8 km west-southwest of Mountain Lake. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (211 km northeast).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Mountain Lake 2104 people in 829 households. The population density was 524.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 829 households lived statistically 2.48 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 82.8 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 10.3 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 3.9 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 10.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

27.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 51.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 47,350. The per capita income was $ 18,558. 6.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.