Park Rapids, Minnesota

Hubbard County

27-49768

Park Rapids is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Hubbard County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Park Rapids had 3709 inhabitants.

Geography

Park Rapids is located in a lakeside scenery in north-central Minnesota at 46 ° 55'20 " north latitude and 95 ° 03'31 " west longitude. The city covers 17.64 km ², spread over 17.07 km ² land and 0.57 km ² water surface.

Neighbouring places of Park Rapids are Lake George ( 35.5 km to the north), Nevis (19 km east-northeast ), Menahga (19,8 km south) and Osage (15,2 km west ).

The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (136 miles west), Winnipeg, Canada (416 km north- north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior (254 km east) and Minneapolis (303 km south-east ).

The border with Canada is located 250 km north.

Traffic

In the center of Park Rapids crosses the running in the north -south U.S. Highway 71, the Minnesota State Route 34 All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.

In the southwestern city area is located to the Park Rapids Municipal - Konshok Field Airport is a small regional airport. The next airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (146 miles west), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (423 km north- north-west ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (326 km south-east ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Park Rapids 3709 people in 1772 households. The population density was 217.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1772 households lived statistically 2.03 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 94.1 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 2.3 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 1.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 24.9 percent were 65 years or older. 53.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 30,045. The per capita income was $ 21,958. 19.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.