Stanley (Wisconsin)
Chippewa County Clark County
55-76625
Stanley is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Chippewa County and to a lesser extent in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Stanley had 3608 inhabitants.
Stanley is part of the metropolitan area of Eau Claire - Chippewa Falls metropolitan area.
Geography
Stanley is located in western Wisconsin, on both sides of the Wolf River, which belongs on the Eau Claire River and Chippewa River to the basin of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates of 44 ° 57'36 Stanley are " north latitude and 90 ° 56'14 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 11.01 km ².
Towns nearby Stanley are Thorp (11.1 km to the east ) and Boyd (9.6 miles west).
The nearest major cities are Green Bay (255 km east), Wisconsin's capital Madison ( 314 km south-southeast ), Eau Claire ( 55.5 west-southwest ), La Crosse (175 km south), Rochester, Minnesota (202 km southwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (195 miles west) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (278 km north-northwest ).
Traffic
The four-lane Wisconsin State Highway 29 leads in west-east direction through the south of Stanley. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways or within city roads.
For freight traffic resulting in a west-east direction, a railway belonging to the Canadian National Railway Wisconsin Central through the city of Stanley.
With the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire is located 49.9 km west of the nearest airport.
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Stanley 3608 people in 930 households. The population density was 327.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 930 households lived statistically 2.26 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 80.4 percent white, 16.6 percent African American, 1.7 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian, 0.2 percent and 0.2 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 0.3 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.
15.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 72.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.0 percent were 65 years or older. Only 31.2 percent of the population was female, which is due to the Stanley Correctional Institution, a medium security men's prison with 750 inmates,.
The median annual income for a household was $ 32,917. The per capita income was $ 20,255. 14.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.