Tyler (Minnesota)

Lincoln County

27-66046

Tyler is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In 2010, Tyler had 1143 inhabitants.

Geography

Tyler is located in southwestern Minnesota at 44 ° 16'33 " north latitude and 96 ° 08'00 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 5.21 km ².

Towns nearby Tyler are Arco (15 km north), Russell ( 17.4 km ENE ), Florence (8.7 km to the southeast ), Ruthton ( 12.6 km SSE ) and Lake Benton (13,2 km to the west ).

The nearest major cities are Minneapolis (278 km east-northeast ), Minnesota's capital Saint Paul (293 km in the same direction), Rochester (318 km east), Sioux Falls, South Dakota (114 km southwest) and Fargo, North Dakota ( 330 km north ).

Traffic

The U.S. Highway 14 leads in west-east direction through the south of the urban area. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or urban roads.

Largely parallel to U.S. 14 runs a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway belonging to the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad from east to west by Tyler.

The Tyler Municipal Airport is located in the north-western city, a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (276 km east-northeast ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Tyler 1143 people in 520 households. The population density was 219.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 520 households lived statistically 2.1 persons each.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.2 percent ( two people) and Asians 1.0 per cent from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 51.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 26.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 39,667. The per capita income was $ 21,689. 17.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.