Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Chippewa County

55-40900

The Town of Lafayette is one of 23 Towns in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Town of Lafayette had 5765 inhabitants.

Town has a fundamentally different meaning than in other English-speaking area in Wisconsin. Rather, it corresponds to the usual in the other U.S. states townships that make up the next smallest administrative unit of the County.

Geography

The Town of Lafayette is located in western Wisconsin, and is bounded on the north by Lake Wissota, a reservoir of the Chippewa River. Its confluence with the Minnesota border to the Mississippi forming is located about 100 km south-west.

The coordinates of the geographical center of the Town of Lafayette are 44 ° 55'30 " north latitude and 91 ° 17'57 " west longitude. It extends over an area of 101.3 km ², spread to 89.4 km ² land and 11.9 km ² water surface.

The Town of Lafayette is located in the south of Chippewa County and is adjacent to the following neighboring Towns:

Traffic

The four-lane Wisconsin State Highway 29 runs in east-west direction through the Town of Lafayette. All other roads are minor roads or partly unpaved roadways.

Parallel to the WI 29 runs for freight traffic a railway line belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central.

The nearest airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire (about 20 km west-southwest ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Town of Lafayette 5765 people in 2273 households. The population density was 64.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2273 households lived statistically 2.53 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.8 percent were 65 years or older. 49.3 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 65,938. The per capita income was $ 29,015. 6.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Villages in the Town of Lafayette

In the area of ​​the Town of Lafayette are next litter colonization following unincorporated settlements:

• Bateman
• Lake Wissota