Lodi (Wisconsin)
Columbia County
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Lodi is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Columbia County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Lodi had 3050 inhabitants.
Lodi is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Lodi is located in south-central Wisconsin, about 3 km south-east of Lake Wisconsin, a reservoir of the Wisconsin River. This flows (160 miles west) at Prairie du Chien in the border with Minnesota forming Mississippi River. The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 18'51 Lodi " north latitude and 89 ° 31'52 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 4.58 km ². The city is completely surrounded by the Town of Lodi without belonging to it.
Towns nearby Lodi are Dekorra (20 km north-northeast ), Poynette (15,9 km northeast), Arlington ( 12.9 km to the east), DeForest (22,5 km to the southeast ), Dane (8.5 km south), Prairie du Sac (18,7 km west ), Sauk City (20,6 km in the same direction) and Lake Wisconsin (10 km north-west ).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (216 km northeast), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (152 km east-southeast ), Chicago, Illinois (268 km south-southeast ), Rockford, Illinois (147 km south), Wisconsin's capital Madison ( 37.7 km in the same direction ), La Crosse (201 km west-northwest ) and Eau Claire (258 km north-west )
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 60 runs in east-west direction through the center of Lodi. The Wisconsin State Highway 113 runs from northwest to the south of the city. Both intersect in the center of Lodi. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or urban roads.
Parallel to the WI 113 runs for freight traffic a railway line belonging to the Watco Companies Wisconsin and Southern Railroad.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital ( 37.7 km SSE ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Lodi 3050 people in 1224 households. The population density was 665.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 1224 households lived statistically 2.44 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.3 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 1.0 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 0.8 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
26.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 56,250. The per capita income was $ 26,106. 6.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Tom Wopat ( born 1951 ) - actor - born and raised in Lodi
- Scott McCallum ( b. 1950 ) - 43rd Governor of Wisconsin ( 2001-2003) - lived in Lodi for years