Menasha, Wisconsin

Winnebago County Calumet County

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Menasha is a city ( with a status of "City" ) in Winnebago and to a lesser extent in Calumet County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Menasha had 17,353 inhabitants.

Menasha is part of the Fox Cities metropolitan area mentioned.

Geography

Menasha is located in eastern Wisconsin on the north shore of Lake Winnebago and its outflow, the Fox River, which flows into Lake Michigan. The geographical coordinates are 44 ° 12'08 Menasha " north latitude and 88 ° 26'47 " west longitude. The city covers an area of ​​19.48 km ², spread over 15.62 km ² land and 3.86 km ² water surface.

Towns nearby Menasha Appleton are ( at the northern city limits ), Harrison (15 km east-northeast ), Sherwood (16,8 km to the east ) and Neenah ( on the southern city limits ).

The nearest major cities are Green Bay ( 57.9 km northeast ), Milwaukee (175 km south), Chicago ( 309 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (166 km southwest), Eau Claire (289 km west-northwest of the Twin Cities in Minnesota ( 436 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota ( 523 km north-west ).

Traffic

The four-lane U.S. Highway 10 forms the northern ring road of Menasha. In the city center, the Wisconsin State Highways 47 and 114 meet together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.

By Menasha is a railway line of the Canadian National Railway today belonging Wisconsin Central.

With the Outagamie County Regional Airport is located 11.3 km northwest of the nearest airport. The next airports are the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (178 km south), the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago (290 km in the same direction) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport ( 439 km west ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Menasha 17,353 people in 7405 households. The population density was 1110.9 people per square kilometer. In the 7405 households lived statistically 2.32 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 90.8 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 2.2 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 3.0 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 2.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 6.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 45,090. The per capita income was $ 25,266. 14.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

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