Colby (Wisconsin)
Marathon County Clark County
55-16150
Colby is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Marathon and in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Colby had 1852 inhabitants.
Geography
Colby is located in northwestern Wisconsin's center, about 5 km west of the Eau Claire River, which heard about the Wisconsin River to the basin of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 54'37 Colby ' north latitude and 90 ° 19'01 "west longitude. The city covers an area of 4.07 km ².
Towns nearby are Colby Abbotsford ( at the northern city limits ), Fenwood (28,3 km to the east), Unity (6,6 km south) and Curtiss ( 14.7 km north west ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay (207 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison (267 km south-southeast ), La Crosse (181 km southwest), Eau Claire (107 miles west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (246 km in the same direction ) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (330 km north- north-west ).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 29 passes north Colby. The Wisconsin State Highway 13 runs north -south direction as the main road through the center of Colby. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
For freight traffic leads in a north-south direction, a railway belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central through the urban area of Colby.
The nearest airports are the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire (101 miles west), the Central Wisconsin Airport in Wausau ( 66.3 km east-southeast ) and the La Crosse Regional Airport (179 km southwest).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Colby 1852 people in 714 households. The population density was 455 people per square kilometer. In the 714 households lived statistically 2.46 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 89.4 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 8.6 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 11.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
25.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.0 percent were 65 years or older. 51.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 34,333. The per capita income was $ 19,651. 10.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.