Spring Valley (Minnesota)

Fillmore County

27-62104

Spring Valley is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Fillmore County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Spring Valley had 2479 inhabitants.

Geography

Spring Valley is located in southeastern Minnesota at 43 ° 41'13 " north latitude and 92 ° 23'21 " west longitude and extends over 6.5 km ².

Towns nearby are Grand Meadow ( 16.6 km to the west ), Racine (16,2 km to the northwest ), Wykoff (12 km east) and Ostrander (11 km south-southwest ).

The nearest major cities are Rochester (43,6 km to the north ) and La Crosse, Wisconsin (113 km east). The metropolitan area around the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is situated 183 km north-northwest.

Traffic

In Spring Valley to meet the U.S. Highway 63 and Minnesota State Routes 16 together. To the north of County Highway leads first All other roads are subordinate partly unpaved country roads and local roads within.

The nearest airports are the Rochester International Airport ( 33.3 km NNW ) and the greater Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (174 km in the same direction).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Spring Valley 2479 people in 1074 households. The population density was 381.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1074 households lived statistically 2.27 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.6 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent ( three people) Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.0 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 42,416. The per capita income was $ 21,221. 11.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.