Gays Mills, Wisconsin
Crawford County
55-28450
Gays Mills is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Crawford County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Gays Mills had 491 inhabitants.
Geography
Gays Mills is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Kickapoo River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. The formed from the Mississippi border to Iowa located 20.2 km west. The border with Illinois runs 114 km south.
The geographical coordinates of Gays Mills are 43 ° 19'03 " north latitude and 90 ° 50'41 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 12.69 km ².
Neighboring villages of Gays Mills are Soldiers Grove (11,9 km northeast), Bell Centre ( on the south eastern city limits ), Steuben (19,8 km south), Seneca (15,8 km southwest) and Mount Sterling (8.3 km to the west ).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse ( 81.8 km NNW ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (141 km east-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (236 km south-east ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (232 km south) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (207 km south-southwest ).
Traffic
In Gays Mills Wisconsin State Highways 131 and 171 intersect All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 92.7 km NNW ), the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa (131 km south) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (150 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Gays Mills 491 people in 226 households. The population density was 38.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 226 households lived statistically 2.17 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.1 percent white, 1.4 percent African Americans and 0.2 percent of Native Americans; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.2 percent were 65 years or older. 54.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,750. The per capita income was $ 19,550. 16.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.