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As of the
census2
of 2000, there were 163 people, 62
households, and 40 families residing in
the city. The
population density was 146.4/km˛
(376.4/mi˛). There were 67 housing units
at an average density of 60.2/km˛
(154.7/mi˛). The racial makeup of the
city was 100.00%
White.
Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 1.23% of the
population.
There were 62 households out of which
41.9% had children under the age of 18
living with them, 54.8% were
married couples living together,
9.7% had a female householder with no
husband present, and 33.9% were
non-families. 27.4% of all households
were made up of individuals and 11.3%
had someone living alone who was 65
years of age or older. The average
household size was 2.63 and the average
family size was 3.22.
In the city the
population was spread out with 31.9%
under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24,
36.8% from 25 to 44, 12.9% from 45 to
64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age
or older. The median age was 30 years.
For every 100 females there were 111.7
males. For every 100 females age 18 and
over, there were 113.5 males.
The median income for
a household in the city was $35,833, and
the median income for a family was
$40,000. Males had a median income of
$30,179 versus $23,333 for females. The
per capita income for the city was
$17,344. About 12.5% of families and
10.2% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 7.8% of
those under the age of eighteen and
12.5% of those sixty five or over.
PEASE, a city in section 13, Milo, was incorporated as
a village on August 6, 1923. In 1882 Benjamin Soule, a Maine lumberman,
who had a sawmill at Princeton, built a second sawmill and a hotel two
miles northeast of the present Pease called Soule's Crossing and located
on the east branch of the Rum River; in 1886 when the railroad completed
the tracks from Princeton to Milaca, Soule built another sawmill near
the tracks, which was then called Soule Siding; following the Hinckley
fire in 1894 that destroyed the sawmills, the first Dutch arrived at
Soule Siding, settling on land around the Siding, and requested a post
office, at which time the name was changed to Pease, either by the
railroad for James J. Hill's friend Granville S. Pease of Anoka, or as a
misspelling of Peace, the name requested by the residents.
