Waunakee, Wisconsin
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Waunakee is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2010 Waunakee had 12,097 inhabitants.
Waunakee is part of the metropolitan area of Madison.
Geography
Waunakee is located in south central Wisconsin, in the northern suburban area of the capital, Madison. Located on the Mississippi intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located 145 km south-west.
The geographical coordinates of 43 ° 11'31 Waunakee are " north latitude and 89 ° 27'20 " west longitude. The municipality covers an area of 16.55 km ².
The center of Madison is located 20.4 km south. Other neighboring towns are DeForest (14,5 km northeast), Windsor ( 15.7 km in the same direction) Sun Prairie (26 km east), Middleton ( 13.5 km SSW ) and Dane (10.2 kilometers north-northwest ).
The nearest big cities are Green Bay (223 km northeast), Milwaukee (136 km east), Chicago (245 km southeast) and Rockford (131 km south).
Traffic
In the Waunakee Wisconsin State Highways 19 and 113 meet together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
From northwest to southeast passing through a railway in the Waunakee Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, a regional (Class II ) Freight transportation company. The only passenger in the region is the traffic going from Chicago to the West Coast Empire Builder Amtrak, which stops in Madison.
The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (14,8 km southeast).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Waunakee 12,097 people in 4344 households. The population density was 730.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 4344 households lived statistically 2.76 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 95.8 percent white, 1.0 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 1.2 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.2 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
31.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 9.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 82,099. The per capita income was $ 37,073. 3.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.