Brooklyn (village), Wisconsin

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Brooklyn is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane and Green County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Brooklyn had 1401 inhabitants.

Brooklyn is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Madison.

Geography

Brooklyn is located in south central Wisconsin, in the southern suburban area of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 135 km west-southwest.

The geographical coordinates are 42 ° 51'13 Brooklyn " north latitude and 89 ° 22'13 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.82 km ².

The center of Madison is located 26.8 km north. Neighboring towns of Brooklyn are Oregon (9 km north), Stoughton (19,4 km northeast), Dunkirk (17,5 km to the east ), Evansville (12 km southeast) and Belleville (19,6 km west ).

The nearest to Madison other major cities are Green Bay (252 km northeast), Milwaukee (156 km east), Chicago (210 km southeast) and Rockford ( 80.3 km SSE ).

Traffic

Through the center of Brooklyn runs in east-west direction of the Wisconsin State Highway 92, to its northern terminus at the Wisconsin State Highway 104 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison ( 36.3 km NNE ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Brooklyn in 1401 people in 508 households. The population density was 496.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 508 households lived statistically 2.76 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.1 percent white, 2.0 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

30.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 5.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.6 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 72,115. The per capita income was $ 25,778. 6.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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