Mount Pleasant (Wisconsin)
Racine
55-54875
Mount Pleasant is a town ( with a status of "Village" ) in Racine County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Mount Pleasant had 26 197 inhabitants.
Mount Pleasant is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
Geography
Mount Pleasant is located in southeastern Wisconsin, in the southern suburb area of its largest city, Milwaukee. In the northeast, the municipality is bordered by the Root River as it comes close to Lake Michigan, in the south.
The geographic coordinates of Mount Pleasant are 42 ° 41'51 " north latitude and 87 ° 51'21 " west longitude. The municipal area extends distribute ² water surface over an area of 91.56 km ², which is 87.36 km ² on land and 4.2 km.
The community Sturtevant is completely surrounded by the municipality of Mount Pleasant. Other neighboring towns are Caledonia ( on the northern boundary of the municipality ), Racine ( on the northeastern boundary of the municipality ), Kenosha (21,6 km to the south) and Union Grove ( 16.6 km to the west ).
The nearest big cities are Milwaukee (42,2 km to the north ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (146 km west-northwest ), Rockford, Illinois (139 km west-southwest ) and Chicago, Illinois (118 km south).
Traffic
The municipal area of Mount Pleasant is bounded on the west by Interstate 94, which runs here on a section together with U.S. Highway 41. Within the municipal territory run the Wisconsin Highway 11, 20:31 and 32 All other roads are subordinate and partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Mount Pleasant run two railway lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which intersect in Sturtevant.
Immediately behind the north-eastern boundary of the municipality is the John H. Batten Airport is a regional airport. The next airports are the General Mitchell International Airport ( 32.1 km north ) and the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago (98 km south) in Milwaukee.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Mount Pleasant 26 197 people in 11,136 households. The population density was 299.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 11,136 households lived statistically 2.33 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 86.0 percent white, 6.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 2.1 percent Asian and 2.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 8.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.8 percent were 65 years or older. 52.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 61,111. The per capita income was $ 32,307. 7.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.