Collegeville Township is a township in Stearns County,

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, United States. The population was 3,343 at the 2010 census.

History

Collegeville Township was organized in 1880, and named after Saint John's College.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (9.83%) is water. Collegeville Township is located in Township 124 North of the Arkansas Base Line and Range 30 West of the 5th Principal Meridian.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 3,516 people, 29% of those being Monks at the present Abbey and Monastery. 569 households, and 397 families residing in the township. The

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was 111.1 people per square mile (42.9/km). There were 721 housing units at an average density of 22.8/sq mi (8.8/km). The racial makeup of the township was 97.07%

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, 0.63%

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, 0.06% Native American, 1.56% Asian, 0.03%

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, 0.34% from

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, and 0.31% from two or more races. Hispanics and Latinos of any race were 0.85% of the population. There were 669 households, out of which 39.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.0% were married couples living together, 2.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.4% were non-families. 12.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.85 and the average family size was 3.11. The age distribution was 16.7% under the age of 18, 41.6% from 18 to 24, 16.8% from 25 to 44, 18.2% from 45 to 64, and 6.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 22 years. For every 100 females, there were 261.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 320.8 males. The median income for a household in the township was $61,146, and the median income for a family was $62,750. Males had a median income of $36,926 versus $27,391 for females. The

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for the township was $18,348. About 0.6% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the

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, including 1.1% of those under age 18 and 2.3% of those age 65 or over.

Arts and culture

Museums and other points of interest

* Saint John's Arboretum * Saint John's University * Saint John's Abbey

Education

The township is home to Saint John's Abbey and Saint John's University, a Catholic school all-male university.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Main routes in the community include Stearns County Roads 50, 51, 159 and 160.

Notable people

*Fr. Celestine Kapsner, OSB, Catholic priest and exorcist * J. F. Powers, National Book Award for Fiction-winning novelist *

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which ''The New York Times'' have called some of the most i ...

, a famous Architect from New York, here to design the new St. John's Abbey and University Church.

References

External links

Collegeville Township Minnesota Website

St. John's University

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