Wauzeka, Wisconsin
Crawford County
55-84725
Wauzeka is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Crawford County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Wauzeka had 711 inhabitants.
Geography
Wauzeka located in southwest Wisconsin, the Wisconsin River, which in the border of Iowa forming Mississippi flows approximately 25 km to the west on the north shore at Prairie du Chien. The border with Illinois is located about 100 km south.
The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 04'59 Wauzeka are " north latitude and 90 ° 55'52 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 12.54 km ² and is almost completely surrounded by the Town of Wauzeka without belonging to it. On the opposite bank of the Wisconsin River, the Town of Woodman borders in the south neighboring Grant County.
Neighboring villages are of Wauzeka are Steuben (14,4 km to the north), Boscobel ( 19.1 km ENE ) Prairie du Chien (24,3 km west ) and Eastman (19,5 km to the northwest ).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (101 km north-northwest ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (136 km east), Rockford, Illinois (220 km south-east ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (216 km south) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( 185 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
The along the Wisconsin River running in the east-west direction Wisconsin State Highway 60 leads as the main road through Wauzeka. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Wisconsin River runs for freight railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, which continues from the Mississippi River to Madison and from there to Milwaukee.
With the Boscobel Airport is located 21.3 km east-northeast a small airfield. The nearest major airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa (115 km south) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (145 km east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Wauzeka 711 people in 273 households. The population density was 56.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 273 households lived statistically 2.6 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 95.8 percent white, 1.0 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 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.
28.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 9.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 41,765. The per capita income was $ 17,024. 19.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.