Ridgeway (Wisconsin)
Iowa County
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Ridgeway is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Iowa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Ridgeway had 653 inhabitants.
Ridgeway is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Ridgeway is located in southwest Wisconsin. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin is located 150 km northwest. After Illinois, there are 68 kilometers to the south.
The geographical coordinates are 43 ° 00'08 Ridgeway " north latitude and 89 ° 59'25 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 3.26 km ². The town is completely surrounded by the Town of Ridgeway, without belonging to it.
Neighboring towns of Ridgeway are Hyde (9.5 km north), Arena ( 24.6 km NNE ) Barneveld (8.5 km east), Hollandale ( 18.2 km SSE ) and Dodgeville (15,1 km west-southwest ).
The nearest large towns are La Crosse (167 km north-west ), Green Bay (280 km northeast), Wisconsin's capital, Madison ( 57.2 km ENE ), Rockford, Illinois (139 km south-east ), the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois (205 km SSW ) and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (206 km southwest).
Traffic
By Ridgeway lead in southwest-northeast direction on a section of track shared the U.S. Highways 18 and 151 All other roads are minor roads and partly unpaved roadways.
Parallel to the road U.S. 18 / U.S. 151 passes through Ridgeway on the route of a former railway line of the Chicago and North Western Railway with the Military Ridge State Trail, a rail trail for walkers and cyclists. In the winter the trail can be traveled with snowmobiles.
With the Iowa County Airport is located 25.3 km south west, a small airfield. The next airports are the Dubuque Regional Airport in Iowa (103 km southwest), the Chicago Rockford International Airport (148 km southeast) and the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison Wisconsin's capital (67 km east-northeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Ridgeway 653 people in 267 households. The population density was 200.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 267 households lived statistically 2.41 per person.
Ethnically, the population consisted of 8 exceptions only from whites. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 66.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.7 percent were 65 years or older. 45.9 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 46,719. The per capita income was $ 25,271. 8.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.