Highland (Wisconsin)
Iowa County
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Highland is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Highland had 842 inhabitants.
Highland is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Highland is located in southwest Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 116 km north-west. After Illinois, there are 67 kilometers to the south.
The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 02'47 Highland are " north latitude and 90 ° 22'45 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.9 km ². The place is completely surrounded by the Town of Highland, without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Highland are Avoca ( 18.8 km NNE ), Cobb ( 11.6 km SSE ) and Montfort (11,4 km southwest).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (134 km north-west ), Green Bay (313 km northeast), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (97 km east), Rockford, Illinois (167 km south-east ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (190 km south ) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (192 km southwest).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 80 leads as the main road through the center of Highland. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport (145 km north-west ), the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa ( 88.8 km SSW ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (108 km east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Highland 842 people in 351 households. The population density was 290.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 351 households lived statistically 2.39 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American and 0.1 percent Asian; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.3 percent were 65 years or older. 49.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,977. The per capita income was $ 20,386. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.