Living in Canosia Township and Pike Lake, Minnesota
Part of the Canosia Township and Pike Lake neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Canosia Township sits north of the City of Hermantown, with the airport immediately southeast. Midway Road, which is County Road 13, and Martin Road, which is County Road 9, are the main routes, and US Highway 53 clips the southwestern corner. The Census gives the township 35.07 square miles, of which 30.67 is land and 4.40 is water.
That water is the point. Four lakes lie partly within the boundary, Pike, Caribou, Fish and Wild Rice, which makes Canosia the most water-rich entry in this guide outside the lakeshore neighborhoods themselves. Four Corners at Pike Lake is the local business district and the nearest thing to a center. The Canosia State Wildlife Management Area occupies the north-central portion with forest, wetland and bog.
As with Midway Township, a township page has two advantages over a neighborhood page: the boundary is legally exact, and the Census publishes data for the whole township directly rather than through a best-fit tract. Everything demographic here describes Canosia itself.
The numbers describe a prosperous rural township. Population about 2,210 across 856 occupied households. Owner-occupancy 89.8 percent. Single-family share 87.1 percent, with a further 9.1 percent manufactured on private land, which is a genuinely distinctive figure well above the Duluth citywide 2.7 percent. Median household income $89,167. Median owner-occupied home value $334,300, the highest of the rural comparisons in this guide. Median structure built around 1985, later than Midway's 1973.
That $334,300 needs reading carefully rather than repeating. It is a single figure covering both waterfront parcels and interior acreage, and lakeshore is lifting it. An interior house on wooded acres will not price like a house with frontage on Pike Lake, and no published median separates the two. Anyone shopping here should decide which of the two markets they are in before comparing anything.
The practical trade is unusually clear. You are twenty-two minutes from downtown Duluth, fifteen from the Miller Hill corridor, and eight from the airport. Cirrus Aircraft has its headquarters and manufacturing on the airport grounds, a significant employer within a very short commute. Against that: no confirmed retail inside the township, no transit at all, a private well and septic system on essentially every parcel, the coldest and snowiest conditions in this guide, and the fighter wing.
Where it is: An organized township rather than a neighborhood, with a legally exact boundary. Canosia Township sits north of the City of Hermantown, with the Duluth International Airport immediately southeast. Midway Road, which is County Road 13, and Martin Road, which is County Road 9, are the main routes, and US Highway 53 clips the southwestern corner. Four bodies of water lie partly within the township: Pike Lake, Caribou Lake, Fish Lake and Wild Rice Lake. Four Corners is the Pike Lake business district and the nearest thing the township has to a center, and the Canosia State Wildlife Management Area occupies the north-central portion.
Area: 35.07 square miles.
Overview next door
Immediately south, the suburban city with municipal services, new construction and the Miller Trunk retail corridor where most township errands happen.
Midway TownshipSouth past Proctor, the other rural township in this guide and the same school district, with acreage but no lake frontage.
ProctorAbout twenty minutes south, the school district town with the middle and high school campus.
Duluth HeightsSoutheast toward the city, above-the-hill Duluth with city services and the Miller Hill corridor.
KenwoodSoutheast into Duluth proper, postwar housing above the hill with the shortest run to the airport of any city neighborhood.