Rock Creek (Minnesota)
Pine County
27-54934
Rock Creek is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Pine County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010 Rock Creek had 1628 inhabitants.
Geography
Rock Creek is located in eastern Minnesota and extends with its metropolitan area in the east to the St. Croix River, which forms the border with Wisconsin. The geographical coordinates of the center of Rock Creek 45 ° 45'27 " north latitude and 92 ° 57'45 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 112.2 km ², the 111.4 km ² land and 0.8 km ² water surface spread.
Towns nearby Rock Creek are Pine City (7.6 & nbspkm north ), Grantsburg, Wisconsin (23,4 km east ), Rush City ( 8.9 km south ) and West Rock (5.4 miles west).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (104 km south), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul ( 99.9 km in the same direction), Eau Claire, Wisconsin (212 km southeast), Duluth Lake Superior (150 km northeast) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 381 km west-northwest ).
The border with Canada is located 376 km north.
Traffic
Interstate 35 leads in a north-south direction through the west of Rock Creek. In the center, running in a west-east direction Minnesota State Route 70 meets the northern terminus of the Minnesota State Route 361 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In a north-south direction, a railroad line of the St. Croix Valley Railroad, a regional (Class III) ) railway company runs.
With the Rush City Regional Airport is located 7.8 km south of Rock Creek, a small regional airport. The nearest international airport is 111 km south to Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Rock Creek 1628 people in 582 households. The population density was 14.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 582 households lived statistically 2.76 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.0 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 0.1 percent ( two people) from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 68.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 5.8 percent were 65 years or older. 47.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 52,557. The per capita income was $ 22,264. 12.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.