Oakport, Minnesota
Clay County
27-47923
Oakport is a settlement on community- free area in Clay County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP). In 2010 Oakport had 1387 inhabitants.
Oakport is part of the Fargo - Moorhead Metropolitan Area.
Geography
Oakport is located on the east bank of the Red River of the North, which forms the border with North Dakota. The place that is the center of Oakport Township, located at 46 ° 55'55 " north latitude, 96 ° 46'44 " west longitude and extending over 7.7 km ².
Towns nearby are Oakport of Moorhead on the southern city limits and Fargo, North Dakota on the opposite bank of the Red River.
The center of Fargo is located 8.4 km south. Major cities in the surrounding area are in Winnipeg Canada ( 355 km north ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 396 km east ), Minneapolis (371 km south-east ) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (402 km south).
The border with Canada is located 244 km north.
Traffic
The running in the north -south U.S. Highway 75 forms the eastern outskirts of Oakport. As a main road, the Minnesota State Route 22 runs through the town and crosses a bridge over the Red River in a westerly direction to the Fargo airport. All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (4.1 km south-west ), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport ( 357 km north ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (406 km south-east ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Oakport 1387 people in 479 households. The population density was 180.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 479 households lived statistically 2.89 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.2 percent white, 0.4 percent African Americans and 0.4 percent of Native Americans; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.3 percent were 65 years or older. 48.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 83,500. The per capita income was $ 33,485. 5.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.