Howard (Wisconsin)
Brown County Outagamie County
55-35950
Howard is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Brown County and a small part in Outagamie County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Howard had 17,399 inhabitants.
Howard is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Green Bay.
Geography
Howard is located in eastern Wisconsin, at the mouth of Duck Creek in Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan. The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 32'37 Howard " north latitude and 88 ° 05'17 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 59.78 km ², which at 46.88 km ² land and 12.9 km ² water surface spread.
Towns nearby Howard Suamico are ( at the northern city limits ), Pittsfield (14,6 km to the northwest ), Seymour (24,9 km west-southwest ), Hobart (12,7 km southwest) and Ashwaubenon (11,7 km to the south).
In the southeast of the community is directly adjacent to the city of Green Bay, the town center is 9.1 km south-east of Howard. The other nearest major cities are Milwaukee (195 km south), Chicago, Illinois ( 341 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (222 km southwest), Eau Claire (304 miles west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( 427 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (513 km north-west ).
Traffic
The Interstate 43 reaches the east of Howard its northern terminus at the inlet to the four-lane U.S. Highway 41 This runs in a north -south direction through the eastern part of Howard. Along the southwestern city limits extend on a section of track shared the Wisconsin State Highways 29 and 32 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.
By Howard ever run a railway in the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad.
With the Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay is located 10.4 kilometers south-southwest of the nearest airport. The next airports are the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (205 km south), the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago ( 322 km in the same direction) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (443 km west).
History
Population
According to the census in 2010 in Howard lived 17,399 people in 6941 households. The population density was 371.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 6941 households lived statistically 2.5 persons each.
The racial the population was composed of 93.8 percent white, 1.5 percent African American, 1.2 percent Native American, 1.3 percent Asian and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 61,327. The per capita income was $ 28,414. 7.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.