Genoa City, Wisconsin

Walworth County Kenosha County

55-28675

Genoa City is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Walworth County and to a lesser extent in Kenosha County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Genoa City had 3042 inhabitants.

Geography

Genoa City is located in southeastern Wisconsin, right on the border to the south in the state of Illinois. Is Bathed the city from the North Branch Nippersink Creek, which heard about the Fox and the Illinois River to the basin of the Mississippi.

The geographical coordinates of Genoa City are 42 ° 29'54 " north latitude and 88 ° 19'41 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 6.06 km ².

Neighboring towns of Genoa City are Powers Lake (10 km north-northeast ), Twin Lakes (8.7 km north-east ), Channel Lake, Illinois (17,8 km to the east ), Richmond, Illinois ( on the south eastern city limits ), Wonder Lake, Illinois ( 14.5 km to the south), Hebron in Illinois ( 11.1 km west-southwest ), Fontana (25,1 km west-northwest ), Bloomfield (6 km north-west ) and Lake Geneva ( 14 km northwest ).

The nearest large towns are Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (81 km north-northeast ), Chicago, Illinois (104 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois (78 km west-southwest ) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (130 km north-west ).

Traffic

The U.S. Highway 12 leads in a north-south direction as the main road through Genoa City. The municipality also still the County Highways B, H, O, P and U come together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

The nearest airports are the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (133 km north-west ), the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee ( 75.6 km NNE ), the Chicago O'Hare International Airport (80 km south-southeast ) and the Chicago Rockford International Airport (85 km west-southwest ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Genoa City 3042 people in 1072 households. The population density was 502 people per square kilometer. In the 1072 households lived statistically 2.82 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 95.4 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 1.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 6.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

32.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 68,833. The per capita income was $ 24,850. 7.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.