Ontario (Wisconsin)
Vernon County
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Ontario is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Vernon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Ontario had 554 inhabitants.
Geography
Ontario is located in southwest Wisconsin on the Kickapoo River, a right tributary of the opening into the Mississippi River Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 73.7 km south west.
Ontario is in the Driftless Area mentioned glacially shaped region that stretches across the southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and the extreme northwestern Illinois. In the last ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation so-called, the region remained free of ice, so that the river valleys were cut deep into the plateau during this time.
The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 43'33 Ontario " north latitude and 90 ° 35'29 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 2.62 km ².
Neighboring towns of Ontario are Norwalk (14,2 km to the north ), Wilton (12.5 km northeast), Kendall ( 22.4 km ENE ), Hillsboro ( 25.7 km east-southeast ), La Farge (20.3 km SSW ) and Cashton ( 16.6 km to the west ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (273 km east-northeast ), Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee (270 km east-southeast ), Wisconsin's capital, Madison (154 km southeast), Rockford, Illinois (273 km south-southeast ), the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa ( 285 km south ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa (282 km south-southwest ), Rochester, Minnesota (185 km west-northwest ) and the Twin Cities in Minnesota (301 km north-west ).
Traffic
In the center of the Ontario extending in a north-south direction Wisconsin State Highway 131 and the leading from west to east Wisconsin State Highway 33 intersect All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
The nearest airports are the La Crosse Regional Airport ( 70.8 km WNW ), the Rochester International Airport in Rochester, Minnesota (182 miles west) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (155 km southeast).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ontario 554 people in 210 households. The population density was 211.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 210 households lived statistically 2.64 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 88.3 percent White, 1.3 percent Native American, 1.1 percent Asian and 7.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 14.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
31.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 50.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.5 percent were 65 years or older. 52.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 30,521. The per capita income was $ 14,933. 30.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.