St. James, Minnesota

Watonwan County

27-57040

Saint James is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Watonwan County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Saint James had 4605 inhabitants.

Geography

Saint James is located at Saint James Lake in southern Minnesota at 43 ° 58'56 " north latitude and 94 ° 37'41 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 6.29 km ².

Neighbouring places of Saint James are Madelia (21,3 km northeast), Lewisville (22,4 km southeast), Ormsby (17,1 km southwest), Odin (19,1 km in the same direction), Butterfield (15 km west-southwest ) and Darfur (24,4 km to the northwest ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (191 km northeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (200 km in the same direction), Rochester (199 km east), Iowa's capital, Des Moines ( 355 km south-southeast ), Omaha, Nebraska ( 398 km SSW ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (205 km west-southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (419 km north-west ).

Traffic

In Saint James the Minnesota State Routes 4 meet, 30 and 60 together. All other roads within Saint James are minor rural roads, some unpaved roadways or urban roads.

In northeast-southwest direction, a railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through the urban area of Saint James.

The St. James Municipal Airport is a small airfield on the eastern city limits. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (186 km northeast).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Saint James 4605 people in 1839 households. The population density was 732.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1839 households lived statistically 2.47 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 81.8 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 14.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 31.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

27.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 45,347. The per capita income was $ 23,565. 12.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.