Staples (Minnesota)
Wadena County Todd County
27-62446
Staples is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Wadena and Todd County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Staples had 2981 inhabitants.
Geography
Staples is located in central Minnesota, near the south bank of the Crow Wing River, a right tributary of the upper Mississippi. The geographical coordinates of 46 ° 21'20 Staples ' north latitude and 94 ° 47'32 "west longitude. The city covers an area of 12.12 km ².
Towns nearby are Staples Motley (12,1 km to the east), Clarissa ( 35.9 km SSW ), Bertha (29,8 km southwest), Hewitt (25.4 km to the west ) and Aldrich ( 11.5 km WNW ).
The nearest major cities are Fargo, North Dakota (175 km north-west ), Duluth Lake Superior (229 km east-northeast ), Minneapolis (219 km southeast), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (237 km in the same direction) and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (402 km southwest).
The border with Canada is located 318 km north.
Traffic
The main road of U.S. Highway 10 runs through Staples and strikes the Minnesota State Route 210 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
In parallel to U.S. 10 runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway, which branches off from a further distance to the south. The route of the BNSF is also designed to carry passengers of Amtrak, used, which maintains a station in Staples.
With the Staples Municipal Airport is located in the north of the city, a small airfield. The nearest regional airport is Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport ( 54.3 km to the east); the nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (242 km southeast).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Staples 2981 people in 1222 households. The population density was 246 people per square kilometer. In the 1222 households lived statistically 2.26 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.9 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.3 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.6 percent were 65 years or older. 52.4 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 23,948. The per capita income was $ 15,802. 33.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.