Belmont (Wisconsin)

Lafayette County

55-06425

Belmont is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Belmont had 986 inhabitants.

Geography

Belmont is located in southwest Wisconsin, approximately 40 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa. The border with Illinois runs 30 km south of Belmont. The geographical coordinates are 42 ° 44'10 Belmont " north latitude and 90 ° 20'03 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 2.28 km ².

Neighboring towns are Mineral Point (20,9 km northeast), Calamine (15,4 km to the east), Darlington ( 23.8 km east-southeast ), Shullsburg ( 27.1 km SSE ), Benton (22,8 km to the south), Cuba City ( 19.8 km SSW ), Platteville (12,2 km west ) and Rewey (16 km north-northwest ).

The nearest large towns are La Crosse (178 km north-northwest ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (103 km east-northeast ), Rockford, Illinois (143 km east-southeast ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (161 km south) and Dubuque, Iowa (47, 2 km west-southwest ).

Traffic

U.S. Highway 151 runs through the north-east of Belmont. The Wisconsin State Highway 126 runs north -south direction as the main road through the center of Belmont. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport (60 km west-southwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (121 km east-northeast ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Belmont 986 people in 439 households. The population density was 432.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 439 households lived statistically 0000000 people each.

The racial the population was composed of 98.8 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.2 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.0 percent were 65 years or older. 52.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 44,688. The per capita income was $ 21,401. 9.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.