Guide to Aitkin Minnesota

Aitkin (city)

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2000-2010 Change

Actual

Percent

Population

1,553

1,770

1,698

1,984

2,165

181

8.36

Land Area (sq. mile)

0.70

1.14

1.21

1.72

Density (persons per sq. mile)

2,218.57

1,552.63

1,403.31

1,150.27

Housing Units

678

859

897

969

1,097

128

11.67

Households

793

769

892

936

4.70

Persons Per Household

2.23

2.21

2.22

2.31

0.09

3.90

As of the census of 2000, there are 1,984 people, 892 households, and 434 families residing in the city. The population density is 445.4/km² (1,150.3/mi²). There are 969 housing units at an average density of 217.5/km² (561.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.33% White, 0.15% African American, 1.31% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 0.55% from two or more races. 0.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 892 households out of which 22.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.5% are married couples living together, 9.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 51.3% are non-families. 46.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 30.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.03 and the average family size is 2.90.

In the city the population is spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 21.6% from 25 to 44, 17.6% from 45 to 64, and 32.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 45 years. For every 100 females there are 76.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 69.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $24,574, and the median income for a family is $38,071. Males have a median income of $30,577 versus $21,641 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,471. 14.2% of the population and 13.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 11.0% of those under the age of 18 and 20.9% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Aitkin Township bears the same name as the county. Its village, also bearing this name, was founded on September 13, 1870, as a station of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which in that year was built through the county, when Nathaniel Tibbetts, then with a surveying party, selected a claim of 160 acres in sections 23 to 26 to which he brought his family in 1871. The next year, in the county organization, it was made the county seat; it was incorporated on August 19, 1889, and re-incorporated on March 16, 1915. Its post office was established in 1872, with Tibbetts as first postmaster; see also LANKIAGUN.

In the village of Aitkin and westward, a beach ridge of gravel and sand, having a height of three to five feet, marks the south shore of a glacial lake, which existed during a geologically very short time in the broad and shallow depression of this part of the Mississippi Valley. It was first described and mapped by the present writer in Volume IV of the Final Report of the Geological Survey of Minnesota, published in 1899, being then known to extend from the edge of Crow Wing County eastward and northward in Aitkin, Spencer, and Morrison Townships.