Truro, Iowa

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Truro
Truro Iowa 20090315 Welcome Sign.JPG
Location in Iowa
Madison County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Truro Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1881
State : United States
State : Iowa
County : Madison County
Coordinates : 41 ° 13 ′  N , 93 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 13 ′  N , 93 ° 51 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
485 (status: 2010)
599,789 (status: 2013)
Population density : 193.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.51 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 330 m
Postal code : 50257
Area code : +1 641
FIPS : 19-79140
GNIS ID : 463555
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Truro Public Library

Truro is a city (with the status " City ") in Madison County in the US -amerikanischen State Iowa . In 2010 Truro had 485 inhabitants, the number of which had decreased to 479 by 2013.

Truro is part of the metropolitan area around Iowa's capital Des Moines .

geography

Truro is located in the southwestern center of Iowa at 41 ° 12'35 "north latitude and 93 ° 50'48" west longitude. The metropolitan area covers an area of ​​2.51 km² and is located in the Ohio Township .

Neighboring towns to Truro are St. Charles (10.9 km northeast), New Virginia (14.2 km east-southeast), Osceola (15.8 miles south-southeast), East Peru (8.4 km west-northwest), and Patterson (13.5 km north-northwest).

The center of Des Moines is 63 km north-northeast. The closest other major cities are the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( Minneapolis and Saint Paul ) (454 km north), Cedar Rapids (150 miles east-northeast), Iowa City (245 km east), Kansas City in Missouri (263 km south-southwest), Nebraska's largest City of Omaha (195 km west) and Sioux City (330 km northwest).

traffic

The Interstate 35 leads in a north-south direction at about five kilometers from east past the city. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airport is Des Moines International Airport (53 km north-northeast).

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1910 310 -
1920 332 7.1%
1930 361 8.7%
1940 353 -2.2%
1950 354 0.3%
1960 338 -4.5%
1970 359 6.2%
1980 407 13.4%
1990 391 -3.9%
2000 427 9.2%
2010 485 13.6%
2013 estimate 479 -1.2%
1910-2000 2010-2013

population

According to the 2010 census , Truro had 485 people in 163 households. The population density was 193.2 people per square kilometer. Statistically, there were 2.98 people each in the 163 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.4 percent white, 0.4 percent (two people) Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.2 percent (one person) from other ethnic groups; 0.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.2 percent of the population.

38.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 51.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.1 percent were 65 years or older. 52.2 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 53,750  USD . The per capita income was $ 19,800. 8.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

  • Kim Reynolds (* 1959) - 47th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa since 2011 - was born and raised in St. Charles

Individual evidence

  1. BusinessRecord: Metro population expands west - Census Bureau.Retrieved October 13, 2014
  2. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved November 13, 2014
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on November 13, 2014
  4. State Data Center of Iowa (PDF; 86 KB) Retrieved November 13, 2014

Web links

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