St. Peter (Minnesota)
Nicollet County
27-58036
St. Peter is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Nicollet County in the south of the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, St. Peter had 11,196 inhabitants.
Geography
St. Peter is located on the left bank of the Minnesota River at 44 ° 19'25 " north latitude and 93 ° 57'29 " west longitude. The city spans 14.94 km ².
Neighbouring places in St. Peter are Le Sueur (19 km north), Cleveland (9,7 km east), Kasota ( on the opposite bank of the Minnesota River to the southern city limit), Mankato (20,3 km south) and Nicollet (20, 5 miles west).
The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (110 km northeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (120 km in the same direction), Rochester (146 km east-southeast ), Iowa's capital, Des Moines (366 km south), Omaha, Nebraska ( 484 km southwest ), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (284 km west-southwest ) and Fargo, North Dakota (434 km north-west ).
Traffic
The main road leading along the Minnesota River U.S. Highway 169 runs through the town of St. Peter. This is crossed in the center of the Minnesota State Route 99, which crosses to the eastern city limits of the Minnesota River via the Broadway Bridge. From the north-east the Minnesota State Route 22 leads in the middle of the city, which she leaves in a southeasterly direction over another bridge over the Minnesota River again. All other roads within North Mankato are minor roadways or urban roads.
The nearest smaller airfields are the Mankato Regional Airport (15 km south) and the Le Sueur Municipal Airport (17,4 km to the north). The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (106 km northeast).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in St. Peter 11,196 people in 3491 households. The population density was 749.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3491 households lived statistically 2.44 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 90.1 percent white, 3.3 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 1.6 percent Asian and 2.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 6.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
19.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 69.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 48,173. The per capita income was $ 19,813. 23.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Horace Austin (1831-1905) - the sixth Governor of Minnesota - practiced as a lawyer in St. Peter
- John Albert Johnson (1861-1909) - 16th Governor of Minnesota - born in St. Peter
- Andrew Ryan McGill (1840-1905) - tenth Governor of Minnesota - worked as a teacher in St. Peter
- James M. McPherson ( b. 1936 ) - historian, author and Pulitzer Prize winner - studied in St. Peter
- Rick Rude (1958-1999) - Wrestler - born in St. Peter
- Henry Adoniram Swift (1823-1869) - third Governor of Minnesota - lived and died in St. Peter