Lake Mills (Wisconsin)
Jefferson County
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Lake Mills is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Lake Mills had 5708 inhabitants.
Geography
Lake Mills is located in the central southeastern Wisconsin on the eastern shore of Rock Lake.
The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 04'53 Lake Mills are " north latitude and 88 ° 54'42 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 11.50 km ², spread over 10.52 km ² land and 0.98 km ² water surface. The town of Lake Mills is surrounded to the north, west and south of the Town of Lake Mills and in the east of the Town of Aztalan, without belonging to one of them.
Neighboring towns of Lake Mills are Milford ( 6.1 km ENE ) Aztalan (4.2 km east), Johnson Creek ( 11.5 km in the same direction), Jefferson ( 14 km southeast ), Fort Atkinson (19,6 km SSE ) Lake Koshkonong (25,5 km to the south), Cambridge (15,6 km southwest), Deerfield (18,6 km west-southwest ), Marshall (18,7 km northwest ) and Waterloo ( 16.2 km in the same direction ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (204 km north- north-east ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 85.6 km to the east), Chicago, Illinois (200 km south-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (104 km south-southwest ) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (44 km to the west ).
Traffic
Interstate 94 forms on their way from Madison to Milwaukee the northern ring road of Lake Mills. In the center of the Wisconsin State Highway 89 and County Highway A, B, G, and V. All other cross streets are minor rural roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Through the south of the urban area leads to the 1986 on the route of a former railway Northwestern opened Glacial Drumlin State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists past the city. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
With the Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport is located 18.7 km south-southeast of Lake Mills, a small airfield. The next airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 41.8 km to the west ) and the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee ( 95.3 km to the east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Lake Mills 5708 people in 2319 households. The population density was 542.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2319 households lived statistically 2.42 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.1 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 1.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 51,691. The per capita income was $ 27,787. 7.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.