Avoca (Wisconsin)
Iowa County
55-04025
Avoca is a town ( with a status of "Village" ) in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Avoca had 637 inhabitants.
Avoca is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Avoca is located in southwest Wisconsin on the south shore of the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 105 km west-northwest. After Illinois, there are 92 kilometers to the south.
The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 10'55 Avoca " north latitude and 90 ° 19'28 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 6.32 km ².
Neighboring towns of Avoca are Lone Rock (13,6 km east ), Highland ( 18.7 km SSW ) and Muscoda (9,9 km to the west ). On the opposite bank of the Wisconsin River is Gotham, which is 23.1 km away but on the nearest road bridge.
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (124 km north-west ), Green Bay (296 km northeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 85.3 km to the east), Rockford, Illinois (182 km south-east ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (209 km SSW ) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (211 km southwest).
Traffic
The leading along the Wisconsin State Highway 133 runs west-east direction as the main road through Avoca. 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.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport (135 km north-west ), the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa (107 km south-southwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 93.9 km to the east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Avoca 637 people in 261 households. The population density was 100.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 261 households lived statistically 2.42 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.4 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 1.7 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
24.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.5 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 31,000. The per capita income was $ 17,790. 23.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.