Morristown, Minnesota
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Morristown is a city in Rice County
Rice County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 56,665 people, 18,888 households, and 13,353 families residing in the county. The population density was 114 people per square mile . There were 20,061 housing units at an average density of 40 per square mile...

, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, United States
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. The population was 987 at the 2010 census. Morristown was founded on land which Sarah Morris, widow of early settler Jonathon Morris, had surveyed into town lots.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²), of which, 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square mile (0.1035995244 km²) of it (4.40%) is water.

Minnesota State Highway 60
Minnesota State Highway 60
Minnesota State Highway 60 is a highway in southern Minnesota, which runs from Iowa Highway 60 at the Iowa state line and continues east-northeast to its eastern terminus at the Wisconsin state line , where the route becomes Wisconsin Highway 25 upon crossing the Mississippi River.Highway 60 is...

 serves as a main route in the community.

Demographics

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 981 people, 363 households, and 258 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,130.4 people per square mile (435.4/km²). There were 374 housing units at an average density of 431.0 per square mile (166.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.86% White, 0.10% African American, 0.51% Native American, 0.51% from other races
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, and 1.02% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.15% of the population.

There were 363 households out of which 37.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.9% were non-families. 24.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.17.

In the city the population was spread out with 29.4% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 17.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $36,538, and the median income for a family was $41,382. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $24,808 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the city was $15,762. About 7.7% of families and 10.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.9% of those under age 18 and 10.7% of those age 65 or over.

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