Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Stearns County
27-58648
Sauk Centre is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. At the 2000 census, the village had 3930 inhabitants. Sauk Centre is the birthplace of Nobel Prize winner and novelist Sinclair Lewis, the city served as the inspiration for the fictional town Gopher Prairie, the Handlungsort his 1920 published novel Main Street. And situated in the place Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a National Historic Landmark.
Geography
The place is located on Sauk Lake, the source of the Sauk River, of which the name is derived. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.3 km ², of which 9.6 square kilometers of land and 0.6 km ² omitted ( = 6.30% ) on water surfaces.
Sauk Centre is located approximately 160 km north- west of the metropolitan area of Minneapolis / Saint Paul on Interstate 94, U.S. Highway 71 and Minnesota State Route 28
The city is considered the geographic center of the state.
Demographic data
At the time of the census of 2000, there were 3930 people Sauk Centre. The population density was 407.9 people per km ². There were 1709 housing units at an average 177.4 per km ². The population consisted of Sauk Centre 98.68 % White, 0.31 % African American, 0.13 % Native American, 0.25 % Asian, 0.25 % reported from other races, and 0.38 % from two or more races. 0.53 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The residents of Sauk Centre distributed to 1616 households out of which 30.4% were living in children under 18 years. 53.0 % married couples living together, 8.5 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5 % were non-families. 31.4% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 17.8 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size is 3.01.
The population was spread out with 25.6 % under the, 8.2% 18 - to 24 - year-olds, 25.1% of 25 - to 44 -year-old, 18.6% 45 - to 64 -year-olds and 22.5 % under the age 65 years or more. The average age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 85.4 males.
The median household income in Sauk Centre was 37 644 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the height of 47,623 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 33 382 U.S. dollar against 20,399 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income amounted to 18,390 U.S. dollars. 5.2% of the population and 2.3% of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 2.9 % of minors and 8.0 % of those age 65 or over.
Train
There are two schools in the city. Holy Family is a Catholic private school for students from kindergarten to sixth grade. The Sauk Centre Public School is divided into Elementary, Junior High and Senior High School.
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Census-designated place (CDP ) Fairhaven
- City in Minnesota
- Location in North America
- Stearns County