Golden Valley, Minnesota facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Golden Valley
City
Location of Golden Valley within Hennepin County, Minnesota
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
County	Hennepin
Founded	1886
Incorporated	1886
Government
• Type	Council / Manager
Area
• City	10.54 sq mi (27.30 km2)
• Land	10.20 sq mi (26.41 km2)
• Water	0.34 sq mi (0.88 km2)
Elevation	856 ft (261 m)
Population  (2010)
• City	20,371
• Estimate  (2019)	21,886
• Density	2,146.32/sq mi (828.66/km2)
• Metro	3,524,583
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central)
ZIP codes	55416, 55422, 55426, 55427
Area code(s)	763
FIPS code	27-24308
GNIS feature ID	0644201
Website	www.goldenvalleymn.gov

Golden Valley is a western and first-ring suburb of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The city is mostly residential and is bordered by U.S. Highway 12 (Interstate 394). Over 15% of the city is parks or nature reserves. The Floyd B. Olson Memorial Highway also runs through the heart of the city providing a direct route to the Minneapolis industrial district.

Golden Valley is the main corporate headquarters of General Mills, a major flour milling and food products company originally located in Minneapolis. It is also the site of the U.S. headquarters of Pentair and local NBC affiliate KARE. The city was also home to the former Minneapolis-Honeywell headquarters, which is now the Resideo Technologies corporate offices.

The city’s population was 20,371 at the 2010 census.

History

Tribes of Chippewa and Sioux had encampments on nearby Medicine Lake. The first white settlers arrived in the early 1850s. Golden Valley was incorporated December 17, 1886. In the early twentieth century, it was mostly a farming community.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.55 square miles (27.32 km²), of which 10.20 square miles (26.42 km²) is land and 0.35 square miles (0.91 km²) is water.

The 45th parallel north runs through Golden Valley, coinciding approximately with Duluth Street.

Interstate 394, U.S. Highway 169, and Minnesota State Highways 55 and 100 are four of the main routes in the area.

Demographics

A deer in a Golden Valley neighborhood

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 20,371 people, 8,816 households, and 5,417 families living in the city. The population density was 1,997.2 inhabitants per square mile (771.1/km²). There were 9,349 housing units at an average density of 916.6 per square mile (353.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 85.4% White, 7.1% African American, 0.4% Native American, 3.5% Asian, 0.9% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.6% of the population.

There were 8,816 households, of which 25.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.3% were married couples living together, 8.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.6% were non-families. 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.84.

The median age in the city was 45.7 years. 19.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.7% were from 25 to 44; 30.9% were from 45 to 64; and 20.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.6% male and 51.4% female.

Economy

General Mills' corporate campus in Golden Valley.

Major employers in the city include:

• Tennant
• General Mills
• Pentair
• KARE, NBC television affiliate for the Twin Cities
• Minnesota United FC – headquarters for the Major League Soccer franchise
• Bluestone Garden
• Room & Board
• Honeywell
• UnitedHealth Group
• USFamily.net

Even though the population of Golden Valley is around 20,000, more than 30,000 people work in Golden Valley. This is because of the presence of large employers including General Mills, Honeywell, and Pentair.

Top employers

According to Golden Valley's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were:

Education

The chapel at Breck School, a private Episcopal school in Golden Valley

Most children who live in Golden Valley attend the Robbinsdale School District or the Hopkins School District, as all of the territory of the city belongs to one or the other school district. Some students attend public schools in other school districts chosen by their families under Minnesota's open enrollment statute.

Golden Valley High School was founded in 1957, and the adjacent Golden Valley Middle School was opened in 1964, and were closed in the early 1980s after the Golden Valley School District merged with the Hopkins School District. Carl Sandburg Junior High School opened in 1959. In 1988, it became Sandburg Middle School. In 1981, the Breck School, a private Episcopal school, purchased the former Golden Valley High School and Middle School property and moved from Minneapolis to the campus of the former Golden Valley schools.

King of Grace Lutheran School is a Christian preschool, elementary school, and middle school of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Golden Valley.

There is also a private elementary Catholic School named Good Shepherd Catholic School. Its name was changed in 2006 from the former Parkvalley Catholic.

What is currently the site of the Perpich Center for Arts Education was originally the Golden Valley Lutheran College, which closed in 1985.

Notable people

See also

In Spanish: Golden Valley (Minnesota) para niños