Minneapolis, Minnesotta

Profile:

Minneapolis, Minnesota, lying on both banks of the Mississippi River, adjoins the city of St. Paul, making the two known as the Twin Cities. Incorporated as a town in 1856 and as a city in 1867, Minneapolis was settled first by people from New York and New England, followed soon by immigrants from Scandinavia.

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Once a town of timber and flour milling, Minneapolis is now the primary business center lying between Chicago and Seattle. Its economy is based on commerce, finance, rail, trucking, health care, as well as food processing, publishing, and other industries. In 2005, Minneapolis was more racially diverse, had less unemployment, and had more people holding a college degree than the U.S. national average.

Population:

City population: 373,000 in 2005
Metro area (including St. Paul): 3.2 million

Interesting Facts:

Minneapolis is located at St. Anthony Falls, the only waterfall on the Mississippi
An average annual temperature of 45º F makes Minneapolis the coldest metropolitan area in the contiguous 48 states
Median value of a Minneapolis house/condo in 2005: $226,900
Number of single-family new-home construction permits issued in 2005: 198. Average cost: $189,300
Home of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, full-time enrollment of 36,000
The largest business headquartered in Minneapolis, Target Corporation, grew from a single store on Nicollet Avenue in 1902
Seven miles of enclosed pedestrian bridges called skyways link 80 city blocks downtown

Demographic:

The racial makeup of Minneapolis:
- White (62.5%)
- Black (18.0%)
- Hispanic (7.6%)
- Two or more races (4.4%)
- Other race (4.1%)
- Other Asian (3.6%)
- American Indian (3.3%)
- Chinese (0.6%)
- Vietnamese (0.6%)
Ancestries: German (21.5%), Norwegian (11.0%), Irish (10.1%), Swedish (8.0%), English (6.1%), sub-Saharan African (4.3%)
Median age: 31
Among people in Minneapolis age 25 and above, 37.4% have a college degree.
Average household size: 2.25

Avg. Family Income:

Median household income in 2005: $41,829

Transportation:

Most residents drive automobiles, but 160,000 people commute to work by means other than single-occupancy vehicle
Metro Transit operates a light-rail system and most city buses
Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, serving 37 million passengers in 2004, is the 12th-largest in the U.S. and 19th-largest in the world
10,000 cyclists use Minneapolis’s bike lanes each day, many of them in winter