Colfax (Wisconsin)

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Colfax is a municipality ( with the status of Village ) in Dunn County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In the census in 2010, Colfax had 1158 inhabitants.

Geography

Colfax is located in the central northwestern Wisconsin on the Red Cedar River, which heard about the Chippewa River to the basin of the Mississippi.

The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 59'51 Colfax " north latitude and 91 ° 43'38 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 3.65 km ². The community of Colfax is completely surrounded by the Town of Colfax, but does not belong to this.

Neighboring towns of Colfax are Sand Creek (21,9 km to the north), Bloomer (27,6 km northeast), Old Albertville (16,7 km southeast), Elk Mound (16,2 km south), Menomonie (27,2 km southwest ) and Tainter Lake ( 13.9 km to the west ).

The nearest large towns are Minnesota's capital of St. Paul (119 miles west), Eau Claire ( 35.7 km south east ), La Crosse (175 km south-southeast ) and Rochester, Minnesota (157 km south-southwest ).

Traffic

In the Colfax Wisconsin State Highways 40 and 170 meet together ( at its eastern terminus ). All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

In west-east direction of a railway line belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central runs through the municipality of Colfax. In the Railway Museum Colfax a series locomotives, cars and equipment of historic railway from western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota are issued.

The nearest airport is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport ( 36.5 km southeast) in Eau Claire; the greater Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport is 138 km to the west.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Colfax 1158 people in 478 households. The population density was 317.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 478 households lived statistically 2.29 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.7 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 53.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.6 percent were 65 years or older. 54.4 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 37,273. The per capita income was $ 19,502. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.