Bangor (Wisconsin)
La Crosse County
55-04550
Bangor is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in La Crosse County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Bangor had 1459 inhabitants.
Bangor is part of the nationwide multi-state metropolitan region of La Crosse Metropolitan Area.
Geography
Bangor lies on the southern bank of the La Crosse River, in the border with Minnesota Mississippi forming flows approximately 30 km to the west. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa is located 62 km south-southwest.
Bangor is located in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.
The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 50'57 Bangor " north latitude and 90 ° 58'40 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 3.19 km ². Bangor is surrounded on the east, south and west of the Town of Bangor and to the north of the Town of Burns without belonging to one of these Towns.
Neighboring towns of Bangor are Burns (7.3 km north), Rockland ( 6.2 km east-northeast ), Coon Valley ( 28.5 km to the south) La Crosse (29,2 km southwest), West Salem (8.1 miles west) and Onalaska (23,4 km in the same direction).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (298 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 308 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital Madison (206 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois ( 312 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (307 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (282 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (139 miles west) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (262 km north-west ).
Traffic
Interstate 90 runs in east-west direction along the southern city limits. The Wisconsin State Highway 162 crosses the I 90 and leads as the main road through Bangor, before he leaves the place on a bridge over the La Crosse River to the north. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the La Crosse River runs for freight railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
By Bangor the La Crosse River State Trail, a running on the route of a former railway line Rail Trail runs for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
The nearest airport is La Crosse Regional Airport, located 26.5 km west.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Bangor 1459 people in 571 households. The population density was 457.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 571 households lived statistically 2.56 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.7 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American and 0.2 percent Asian; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
29.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 13.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.6 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,333. The per capita income was $ 22,578. 14.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.