Friendship (Wisconsin)

Adams County

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Friendship is a commune ( with a status of "Village" ) and the administrative seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Friendship had 725 inhabitants.

Geography

Friendship is located in central Wisconsin on the southwestern shore of Lake Friendship at 43 ° 58 'north latitude and 89 ° 49 ' west longitude. The site covers an area of 2.38 km ².

Neighbouring places of Friendship are Adams ( on the southern city limits ) Dellwood (11,3 km west), Arkdale (11,7 km northwest ) and Coloma (29,7 km east-northeast ).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (195 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (235 km southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (128 km south-southeast ), Chicago, Illinois ( 349 km in the same direction), Rockford, Illinois ( 230 km south ), Rochester, Minnesota (249 miles west), Eau Claire (190 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( 337 km in the same direction).

Traffic

The State Trunk Highway 13 runs north -south direction as the main road through Friendship. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.

With the Adams County Legion Field Airport is 2.2 km east-southeast, a small airfield .. The nearest regional airports are the Central Wisconsin Airport in Wausau (103 km north ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (121 km south-southeast ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Friendship 725 people in 256 households. The population density was 304.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 256 households lived statistically 2.29 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.0 percent white, 1.9 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.6 percent Asian, and 1.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 4.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

18.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 54.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 27.0 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 46,389. The per capita income was $ 17,805. 23.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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