Spring Valley, Minnesota

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Spring Valley
Downtown Spring Valley
Downtown Spring Valley
Location in Minnesota
Fillmore County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Spring Valley Highlighted.svg
Basic data
State : United States
State : Minnesota
County : Fillmore County
Coordinates : 43 ° 41 ′  N , 92 ° 23 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′  N , 92 ° 23 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 2,479 (as of 2010)
Population density : 381.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 6.5 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) of
which 6.5 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 388 m
Postal code : 55975
Area code : +1 507
FIPS : 27-62104
GNIS ID : 652485
Website : www.springvalley.govoffice.com
Mayor : Jim Struzyk
2009-0528-MN-SpringValley-cityhall.jpg
Spring Valley City Hall

Spring Valley is a small town (with the status " City ") in Fillmore County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 , Spring Valley had 2,479 residents.

geography

Spring Valley is located in southeast Minnesota at 43 ° 41'13 "north latitude and 92 ° 23'21" west longitude and extends over 6.5 km².

Neighboring towns are Grand Meadow (16.6 km west), Racine (16.2 km northwest), Wykoff (12 km east) and Ostrander (11 km south-southwest).

The closest major cities are Rochester (27 miles north) and La Crosse , Wisconsin (113 miles east). The metropolitan area around the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is 183 km north-northwest.

traffic

US Highway 63 and Minnesota State Routes 16 meet in Spring Valley . County Highway 1 leads north . All other roads are subordinate, partly unpaved, country roads and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airports are Rochester International Airport (20 miles north-northwest) and the larger Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (174 miles in the same direction).

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1880 1256 -
1890 1381 10%
1900 1770 28.2%
1910 1817 2.7%
1920 1871 3%
1930 1712 -8.5%
1940 2133 24.6%
1950 2467 15.7%
1960 2628 6.5%
1970 2572 -2.1%
1980 2616 1.7%
1990 2461 -5.9%
2000 2518 2.3%
2010 2479 -1.5%
Source: US Census Bureau

According to the 2010 census, the Spring Valley had 2,479 people in 1,074 households. The population density was 381.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.27 people lived in each of the 1074 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.1 percent (three people) Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.7 percent of the population.

23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.0 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 42,416  USD . The per capita income was $ 21,221. 11.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved January 27, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed January 27, 2013
  3. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved January 27, 2013

Web links

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