Holmen (Wisconsin)
La Crosse County
55-35450
Holmen is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in La Crosse County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Holmen had 9005 inhabitants. their number increased to 9318 by 2012.
Holmen is part of the nationwide multi-state metropolitan region La Crosse Metropolitan Area.
Geography
Holmen is 2 km southeast of the Lake Onalaska dammed Mississippi, which forms the border with Minnesota. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa is located 54.8 km south.
Holmen is located in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.
The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 57'48 Holmen " north latitude and 91 ° 15'23 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 13.47 km ².
Neighboring towns of Holmen are Council Bay (12.5 km to the north, Mindoro (17,3 km northeast), West Salem ( 19.5 km southeast), Onalaska (9.3 SSE ), Brice Prairie (9.2 km south-west ), Trempealeau (17,1 km west-northwest ) and Galesville (17,9 km north-northwest ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 327 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 340 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital Madison (233 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois ( 339 km in the same direction), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa (326 km south), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (276 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (131 miles west) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (231 km north-west ).
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 53 runs along the western city limits. The Wisconsin State Highway 35 leads as the main road through Holmen, before he leaves the place in a northwesterly direction. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Mississippi River runs near the western Ortsrandes for freight railway line of the BNSF Railway, the second largest railway company in the country.
The nearest airport is the La Crosse Regional Airport, which is 17 km south.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Holmen 9005 people in 3400 households. The population density was 668.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3400 households lived statistically 2.64 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 90.4 percent white, 0.6 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 7.0 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
30.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.2 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 61,832. The per capita income was $ 24,434. 6.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.