Guide to Eden Valley Minnesota

Eden Valley (city)

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2000-2010 Change

Actual

Percent

Population

776

763

732

866

1,042

+176

+20.32

Land Area (sq. mile)

0.80

1.25

1.28

1.22

-0.06

-4.69

Density (persons per sq. mile)

970.00

610.40

571.88

676.56

854.10

+177.54

+26.24

Housing Units

263

314

328

376

485

+109

+28.99

Households

301

306

360

434

+74

+20.56

Persons Per Household

2.54

2.39

2.41

2.40

-0.01

-0.41

Eden Valley is a city in Meeker and Stearns counties in the state of Minnesota. Most of Eden Valley is located in Meeker County. Minnesota State Highways 22 and 55 are two of the main routes in the community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.22 square miles (3.16 km2), all of it land. The elevation is 1,115 ft (340 m).

As of the census of 2010, there were 1,042 people, 434 households, and 262 families residing in the city. The population density was 854.1 inhabitants per square mile (329.8/km2). There were 485 housing units at an average density of 397.5 per square mile (153.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 96.2% White, 0.4% African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.2% of the population.

There were 434 households of which 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.9% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 39.6% were non-families. 33.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.01.

The median age in the city was 34.5 years. 27.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.8% were from 25 to 44; 21% were from 45 to 64; and 15.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 51.1% male and 48.9% female.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

EDEN VALLEY, a railway village in the north edge of Manannah, platted in 1886, was euphoniously named by officers of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (Soo Line). The city with Stearns County began as Pappelbusch (often spelled Popple Bush) in Manannah Township in 1877, a German name meaning "stand of popple trees," on a site two and one-half miles east of the present Eden Valley; it was incorporated as a village on April 25, 1894. August Loegering came to the site about 1880, bought a farm on the border of Stearns and Meeker Counties, opened a general store and a post office called Logering, 1884-93, the post office department misspelling his name. Loegering was born in 1857 in Waconia, later moved to Long Prairie, where he died in 1938. When the Minneapolis and Pacific Railroad built through sections 2 and 3 of the present city, all businesses moved there; the post office, begun as Eden Lake in Stearns County in 1872, was transferred to Eden Valley in 1887.

North Main Street, Eden Valley Minnesota, 1912
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