Benton (Wisconsin)

Lafayette County

55-06825

Benton is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Benton had 973 inhabitants.

Geography

Benton is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Galena River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. The formed from the Mississippi border to Iowa is located 25 km to the west, the border with Illinois runs 9 km south of the city. The geographical coordinates are 42 ° 33'35 Benton " north latitude and 90 ° 23'49 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.18 km ² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Benton, without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns are Cuba City (7.1 km north-west ), Belmont ( 22.5 km NNE ), Shullsburg (14,3 km to the east), Scales Mound, Illinois (20,8 km southeast), Galena, Illinois (23,6 km south-southwest ) and Hazel Green (8.1 km south-west ).

The nearest large towns are La Crosse (195 km north-west ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (125 km northeast), Rockford, Illinois (130 km east-southeast ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (145 km south) and Dubuque, Iowa (30, 7 km west-southwest ).

Traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 11 runs as the main street in east-west direction by Benton. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport (43,5 km southwest) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (135 km northeast).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Benton 973 people in 398 households. The population density was 446.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 398 households lived statistically 2.44 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.5 percent White, 0.1 percent (one person) Black or African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 52,656. The per capita income was $ 22,796. 11.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.