Chetek, Wisconsin

Barron County

55-14325

Chetek is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Chetek had 2221 inhabitants.

Geography

Chetek is located in northwestern Wisconsin on the southwest shore of Lake Chetek. On the western outskirts of the Red Cedar River flows past Chetek, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi Chippewa River. The geographical coordinates of 45 ° 19'07 Chetek are " north latitude and 91 ° 39'16 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 8.11 km ², spread over 6.27 km ² land and 1.84 km ² water surface.

Towns nearby are Weyerhaeuser Chetek (30,1 km northeast), New Auburn (15,5 km to the southeast ), Dallas (17,1 km southwest), Barron (21,2 km northwest ) and Cameron (13,9 km in the same direction).

The nearest major cities are Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (185 km north), Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 349 km east-southeast ), Eau Claire ( 67.3 km to the south), Rochester, Minnesota (204 km south-southwest ) and Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis (158 km west-southwest ).

The border with Canada is located approximately 400 km north.

Traffic

U.S. Highway 53 runs northwest-southeast direction along the southwestern city limits of Chetek. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.

In parallel to U.S. 53, a railroad line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through the center of Chetek.

With the Chetek Municipal - Southworth Airport in the south-eastern part a small airfield. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (171 km west-southwest ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Chetek 2221 people in 951 households. The population density was 354.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 951 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.4 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.7 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 25.0 percent were 65 years or older. 54.1 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 32,574. The per capita income was $ 17,349. 17.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.