Abbotsford (Wisconsin)
Marathon County Clark County
55-00100
Abbotsford is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in the marathon and to a lesser extent in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Abbotsford had 2310 inhabitants.
Geography
Abbotsford is located in northwestern Wisconsin's center, about 3 km west of the Eau Claire River, which heard about the Wisconsin River to the basin of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 56'48 Abbotsford " north latitude and 90 ° 19'06 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 7.02 km ².
Towns nearby Abbotsford are Dorchester (7.9 km north), Athens ( 28.9 km ENE ), Edgar (29,9 km east ), Colby ( on the southern outskirts ), Unity (10,7 km to the south), Riplinger ( 20.8 km southwest ) and Curtiss (11,6 km to the west ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay (204 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (281 km south-southeast ), La Crosse (185 km southwest), Eau Claire (104 miles west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (243 km in the same direction ) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (327 km north- north-west ).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 29 leads around the southern bypass around Abbotsford. The old WI 29 runs in east-west direction as the main road through the center of Abbotsford and crosses here the Wisconsin State Highway 13 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
For freight traffic leads in a north-south direction, a railway belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central through the city of Abbotsford.
The nearest airports are the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire ( 98.4 km to the west ), the Central Wisconsin Airport in Wausau ( 62.8 km east-southeast ) and the La Crosse Regional Airport (184 km southwest).
Population
According to the census in 2010, lived in Abbotsford 2310 people in 864 households. The population density was 329.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 864 households lived statistically 2.57 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 81.9 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 16.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 25.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.9 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 39,295. The per capita income was $ 22,289. 5.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.