Alma Center, Wisconsin
Jackson County
55-01300
Alma Center is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Alma Center had 503 inhabitants.
Geography
Alma Center is located in western Wisconsin, about 80 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Minnesota.
The geographical coordinates of 44 ° 26'14 Alma Center are " north latitude and 90 ° 54'41 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 2.59 km ² and is in the north, east and south of the Town of Alma and surrounded to the west of the Town of Garden Valley, without belonging to one of them.
Neighboring towns of Alma Center are Humbird (11,9 km to the north ), Merrillan (6 km east-northeast ), Black River Falls ( 18.8 km SSE ), Hixton (11,6 km southwest) and Northfield (16,6 km to the west ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (269 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (229 km southeast), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 333 km in the same direction ), La Crosse, on the Mississippi (96 km SSW ), Rochester, Minnesota (161 km west-southwest ), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (200 km west-northwest ) and Eau Claire ( 69.7 km to the northwest ).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 95 leads in west-east direction as the main road through Alma Center. All other States are minor rural roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
For the freight railway line of the Canadian National Railway runs through Alma Center.
The nearest airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (223 km southeast) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (219 km west-northwest ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Alma Center 503 people in 205 households. The population density was 194.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 205 households lived statistically 2.45 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 92.8 percent White, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian, 0.2 percent and 4.4 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 6.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
29.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.9 percent were 65 years or older. 53.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 53,333. The per capita income was $ 23,125. 11.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.