Guide to Rollingstone Minnesota

Rollingstone Minnesota (city)

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2000-2010 Change

Actual

Percent

Population

450

528

697

664

-33

-4.73

Land Area (sq. mile)

0.40

0.49

0.45

0.46

0.00

Density (persons per sq. mile)

1,125.0

1,077.6

1,548.9

1,528.2

1,443.4

-84.72

-4.73

Housing Units

120

159

234

251

267

+16

+6.37

Households

156

230

245

254

+3.67

Persons Per Household

3.38

3.03

2.84

2.61

-0.23

-8.10

Rollingstone is a city in Winona County, Minnesota. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.2 km²), all of it land. The elevation is 761 ft (232 m) above sea level.

As of the census of 2000, there were 697 people, 245 households, and 203 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,528.2 people per square mile (585.0/km²). There were 251 housing units at an average density of 550.3/sq mi (210.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 99.43% White, 0.14% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.14% Asian, 0.14% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.57% of the population.

There were 245 households out of which 49.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.6% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.1% were non-families. 13.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the city the population was spread out with 31.9% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 98.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $45,000, and the median income for a family was $49,083. Males had a median income of $34,250 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,294. About 1.6% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.6% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

ROLLINGSTONE Township, organized May 1858, and its city, located on a plateau between two branches of the Rollingstone River, are named from the river or creek. Its Dakota name is "Eyan-omen-man-met-pah, the literal translation of which is 'the stream where the stone rolls'" (History of Winona County, 1883, p. 144). The journal of Maj. Thomas Forsyth, with Col. Henry Leavenworth and the troops who came in 1819 for building the fort that in 1825 was named Fort Snelling, called this stream "the Tumbling Rock."

The village was incorporated on August 5, 1892. When the post office was established in 1860, the postmaster was James S. Drew, a member of the Western Farm and Village Association, a group of New Englanders who tried to colonize the site in 1853 but did not succeed because of poor planning as well as illness among the settlers; most were gone by 1854. A group of Luxembourgers came in 1856; the site was developed with sawmills, and the Chicago Great Western Railroad came in 1888.

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