Superior (Village, Wisconsin)

Douglas County

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Superior is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010, Superior had 664 inhabitants.

Superior is surrounded on three sides by the Town of Superior, without belonging to it. In the north of the municipal territory adjacent to the city of the same name also City of Superior. All three are named after the Lake Superior, the English name for Lake Superior.

Superior is part of the nationwide transnational metropolitan Twin Ports around the cities of Superior and Duluth, Minnesota.

Geography

Superior is located at 56 ° 39'22 " north latitude and 92 ° 6'13 " west longitude. The city covers 3.11 km ², which consist exclusively of land area.

The nearest after the City of Superior largest cities are Duluth in neighboring Minnesota (16,1 km to the north ), Eau Claire (243 km south-southeast ) and the Twin Cities (248 km south-southwest ).

Traffic

The port of the City of Superior Lake Superior is located about 2 km north.

In the Superior Wisconsin Highways 35 and 105 meet together.

By Superior run several train lines of the BNSF Railway, leading from the neighboring town of Superior harbor to the south.

The town is located south of the Richard I Bong Airport, which forms the southern end of the City of Superior. The distance there is 6 km. The nearest commercial airport is the Duluth International Airport ( 25.3 km NNW ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Superior 664 people in 299 households. The population density was 214.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 299 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 97.0 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 1.1 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.8 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 68,333. The per capita income was $ 28,973. 5.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.