Elk Mound, Wisconsin

55-23325

Elk Mound is a municipality ( with the status of Village ) in Dunn County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In the census in 2010 Elk Mound had 878 inhabitants.

Geography

Elk Mound is located in the central northwestern Wisconsin near the Red Cedar River, which heard about the Chippewa River to the basin of the Mississippi.

The geographic coordinates of Elk Mound 44 ° 52'23 " north latitude and 91 ° 41'28 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 5.93 km ². The community of Elk Mound is completely surrounded by the Town of Elk Mound, but does not belong to this.

Neighboring towns of Elk Mound are Chippewa Falls ( 29.8 km ENE ), Eau Claire ( 19.6 km east-southeast ), Menomonie (20,2 km west ), Tainter Lake ( 28.4 km north west ) and Colfax (16,2 km north-northwest ).

The nearest large towns are Minnesota's capital of St. Paul (115 miles west), La Crosse (157 km south-southeast ) and Rochester in Minnesota (141 km southwest).

Traffic

Interstate 94 runs northwest -southeast in the direction along the south- center of Elk Mound. U.S. Highway 12 runs parallel to I-94 as the main road through the town. On the northwestern city limits, the Wisconsin State Highways 29 and 40 meet together ( at its southern end point). All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

For freight transport, in addition to the U.S. 12 a railroad line of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through the municipality of Elk Mound.

The nearest airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire (20,4 km to the east); the greater Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport is 135 km to the west.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Elk Mound 878 people in 334 households. The population density was 148.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 334 households lived statistically 2.63 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 90.8 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 5.0 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

30.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.7 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 43,580. The per capita income was $ 20,530. 9.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.