Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin
Brown County
55-03425
Ashwaubenon is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Ashwaubenon had 16,963 inhabitants.
Ashwaubenon is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Green Bay.
Geography
Ashwaubenon is located in eastern Wisconsin, on the left bank of the Fox River, 8 km upstream of its confluence with the Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan. The geographical coordinates of 44 ° 29'14 Ashwaubenon are " north latitude and 88 ° 05'00 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 33.02 km ².
Neighbouring places of Ashwaubenon are Allouez ( on the opposite bank of the Fox River on the southeast city limits ), De Pere ( on the southern city limits ), Hobart ( on the western city limits ), Howard (14,7 km to the north ) and Green Bay ( at the northeastern city limits ).
The center of Green Bay is located 6.8 km north-east of Ashwaubenon. The other nearest major cities are Milwaukee (186 km south), Chicago ( 330 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (213 km southwest), Eau Claire (306 miles west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( 451 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota ( 527 km north-west ).
Traffic
The Fox River is navigable by dams and locks for inland waterway vessels that can reach the basin of the Mississippi between the Port of Green Bay on the Fox - Wisconsin Waterway.
The main road through Ashwaubenon is the running within a few kilometers along the Fox River four-lane U.S. Highway 41 in the center of Ashwaubenon also the four-lane highway Wisconsin 172 branches in a southeasterly direction from U.S. 41 off and leaves the place with the bridge over the Fox River. The Wisconsin Highway 32 leads as the main road through the center of Ashwaubenon. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.
By Ashwaubenon runs a railway line of the Canadian National Railway today belonging Wisconsin Central.
With the Austin Straubel International Airport is located at the western city limits of the nearest airport. The next airports are the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (199 km south), the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago ( 311 km in the same direction) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (454 km west).
Railway Museum
In Ashwaubenon has been around since 1956 with the National Railroad Museum an extensive collection of historic locomotives and railroad cars.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ashwaubenon 16,963 people in 7421 households. The population density was 513.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 7421 households lived statistically 2.25 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 90.6 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 2.1 percent Native American, 3.1 percent Asian and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.6 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 51,983. The per capita income was $ 29,335. 9.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.