Muscoda, Wisconsin
Grant County Iowa County
55-55200
Muscoda is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Grant County and to a lesser extent in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Muscoda had 1299 inhabitants.
Geography
Muscoda is located in southwest Wisconsin on the south shore of the Wisconsin River, a left tributary of the Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 97 km north-west. After Illinois, there are 87 kilometers to the south.
The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 11'06 Muscoda are " north latitude and 90 ° 26'35 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 3.78 km ².
Neighboring towns of Muscoda are Richland Center ( 19.7 km NNE ), Gotham ( 15.2 km ENE ), Avoca (9,9 km to the east ), Highland ( 19.9 km SSE ), Blue River ( 9.9 km to the west ) and Westport ( 18.3 km WNW ).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (114 km north-west ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 94.7 km to the east), Rockford, Illinois (187 km southeast), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (210 km south) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (212 km southwest).
Traffic
The leading along the Wisconsin State Highway 133 runs west-east direction as the main road through Muscoda. The Wisconsin State Highway 80 leaves the site in a northerly direction across a bridge over the Wisconsin River. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
Along the Wisconsin River runs for freight railway line of the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, which continues from the Mississippi River to Madison and from there to Milwaukee.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport (125 km north-west ), the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa (109 km south-southwest ) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (103 km east).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Muscoda 1299 people in 569 households. The population density was 343.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 569 households lived statistically 2.19 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.9 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 34,088. The per capita income was $ 18,774. 17.7 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.