Thief River Falls, Minnesota
Pennington County
27-64570
Thief River Falls, also called Thief River or TRF as, is a city ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Pennington County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Thief River Falls had 8573 inhabitants.
Geography
Thief River Falls is located in northwestern Minnesota, 82.7 km north east of Grand Forks, North Dakota. According to the United States Census Bureau, the area of the city is 13 square kilometers, of which 12 square kilometers of land and 1 square miles of water. The town lies at the mouth of Thief River into the Red Lake River, a right tributary of the Red River of the North.
Neighboring towns of Thief River Falls are Holt (19,5 km to the north ), Goodridge (30,9 km east) and St. Hilaire (12,4 km to the south ).
The nearest big cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (227 km north-northwest ), Duluth Lake Superior ( 392 km east-southeast ), Minneapolis ( 473 km southeast) and Fargo, North Dakota (181 km south-southwest ).
The border with Canada, about 110 km north.
Traffic
Important road links are U.S. Highway 59 and Minnesota State Routes 1 and 32
In Thief River Falls railway line of the Minnesota Northern Railroad meets a range of today to the Canadian Pacific Railway belonging SOO Line Railroad.
South of the city limits is the Thief River Falls Regional Airport. The nearest major airports are the Hector International Airport in Fargo (178 km south-southwest ), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (234 km north-northwest ) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 496 km southeast).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Thief River Falls 8573 people in 3802 households. The population density was 691.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3802 households lived statistically 2.18 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 92.0 percent white, 2.1 percent African American, 1.9 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 1.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
22.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.7 percent were 65 years or older. 52.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,306. The per capita income was $ 21,098. 13.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Education
Thief River Falls is home to as public schools, the Lincoln High School, Franklin Middle School, and Challenger Elementary School. Further, in Thief River Northland Community and Technical College ( NCTC ).
Economy
The largest employer with 2,400 employees is the Elektronikdistributer Digi -Key which in the city of its global logistics and distribution center operates. Furthermore, located in the town of Arctic Cat, a manufacturer of snowmobiles. From 1957 until its bankruptcy in 1986, was the production plant of the Steiger tractor manufacturer in Thief River Falls.