Kewaskum, Wisconsin

Washington County Fond du Lac County

55-39300

Kewaskum is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Washington County and a small part in Fond du Lac County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Kewaskum had 4004 inhabitants.

Geography

Kewaskum is in the middle southeast Wisconsin on both sides of the Milwaukee River, approximately 40 km west of Lake Michigan. The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 31'15 Kewaskum are " north latitude and 88 ° 13'44 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 6.35 km ².

Neighboring towns of Kewaskum are New Fane (7.4 km north-east ), Newburg (23,5 km south-east ), West Bend ( 12.9 km SSE ), Allenton (19,8 km southwest), Theresa (20,6 km west ) and Campbell Sports ( 10.1 km NNW ).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (121 km north), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee ( 64.7 km SSE ), Chicago, Illinois (214 km in the same direction), Rockford, Illinois (203 km south-southwest ) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (122 km southwest).

Traffic

U.S. Highway 45 runs north -south direction as the main road through Kewaskum and crosses here the Wisconsin State Highway 28 All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.

In parallel to U.S. 45 runs through the municipality of Kewaskum on the route of a former railway route of the railway State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles and skis.

With the West Bend Municipal Airport is located 16.3 kilometers south-east a small airfield. The nearest major airport is General Mitchell International Airport ( 74.6 km SSE ) in Milwaukee.

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Kewaskum 4004 people in 1581 households. The population density was 630.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1581 households lived statistically 2.52 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 96.0 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and 1.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.7 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 59,280. The per capita income was $ 25,989. 7.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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