Rice Lake (Wisconsin)
Barron County
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Rice Lake is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Rice Lake had 8438 inhabitants and was the largest city of the county.
Geography
Rice Lake is located in northwest Wisconsin on the western shore of Rice Lake, which is drained by the Red Cedar River, a tributary of the opening into the Mississippi Chippewa River. The geographic coordinates of Rice Lake are 45 ° 29'54 " north latitude and 91 ° 44'20 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 25.12 km ², spread over 22.27 km ² land and 2.85 km ² water surface.
Towns nearby Rice Lake are Haugen (12 km north), Cameron (11,9 km south), Barron (20,9 km southwest) and Cumberland ( 23.3 km to the west ).
The nearest major cities are Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (159 km north), Green Bay on Lake Michigan ( 376 km east-southeast ), Eau Claire ( 94.3 km SSE ), Rochester, Minnesota (231 km south-southwest ) and Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis (165 km west-southwest ).
The border with Canada is located 418 km north.
Traffic
The four-lane U.S. Highway 53 runs north -south through the west of Rice Lake. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
By Rice Lake runs north -south railway route of the former Wisconsin Central, now part of the Canadian National Railway.
With the Rice Lake Regional Airport is located in a 12.4 km south of the city center located exclave of the urban area, a small regional airport. The nearest major airport is the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (173 km southwest).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Rice Lake 8438 people in 3936 households. The population density was 378.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 3936 households lived statistically 2.09 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.2 percent were 65 years or older. 53.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 37,981. The per capita income was $ 23,973. 12.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.