Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Door County
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Sister Bay is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Door County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Sister Bay had 876 inhabitants.
Geography
Sister Bay is located in eastern Wisconsin on the western shore of Green Bay, a bay of Lake Michigan. The geographical coordinates of 45 ° 11'14 Sister Bay are " north latitude and 87 ° 07'15 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 9.27 km ² to 6.68 km ² land and 2.59 km ² water surface spread. The community of Sister Bay is surrounded to the east of the Town of Gibraltar and in the west of the Town of Liberty Grove, without belonging to one of them.
Towns nearby Sister Bay are Ellison Bay (9 km northeast), North Port ( 18.4 km in the same direction), Baileys Harbor (14,4 km to the south), Ephraim (6.4 km southwest) and Fish Creek (13, 8 km in the same direction).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay (121 km southwest), Milwaukee (275 km south), Chicago, Illinois ( 427 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (345 km southwest) and Eau Claire (430 miles west).
Traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 42 runs as the main road through Sister Bay. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and urban roads.
The Ephraim - Gibraltar Airport is 9.4 kilometers south-west, a small airfield. The Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay is 138 km south-west lying next Regional Airport; the nearest major airports are the General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (285 km south), the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago ( 401 km in the same direction) and the Minneapolis -Saint Paul International Airport (573 km west).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Sister Bay 876 people in 457 households. The population density was 131.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 457 households lived statistically 1.75 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 97.5 percent white, 0.7 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and 1.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 3.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
10.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 43.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 46.2 percent were 65 years or older. 57.1 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 38,056. The per capita income was $ 29,812. 9.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.