Ashwaubenon

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Ashwaubenon
Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin
Ashwaubenon
Ashwaubenon
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Brown County
Coordinates : 44 ° 29 ′  N , 88 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′  N , 88 ° 5 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
16,963 (as of 2010)
306,241 (as of 2010)
Population density : 513.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 33.02 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 )
Height : 184 m
Postal code : 54313
Area code : +1 920
FIPS : 55-03425
GNIS ID : 1577391
Website : www.ashwaubenon.com
Mayor : Michael W. Aubinger (President)
ReschCenterLombardiAvenueMay2007.jpg
The Resch Center sports complex in Ashwaubenon

Ashwaubenon is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Brown County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Ashwaubenon had 16,963 residents.

Ashwaubenon is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Green Bay .

geography

Ashwaubenon is located in eastern Wisconsin, on the left bank of the Fox River , 8 km above its confluence with Green Bay , part of Lake Michigan . The geographical coordinates of Ashwaubenon are 44 ° 29'14 "north latitude and 88 ° 05'00" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​33.02 km².

Neighboring towns to Ashwaubenon are Allouez (on the opposite bank of the Fox River on the southeastern border), De Pere (on the southern border), Hobart (on the western border), Howard (14.7 km north) and Green Bay (on the northeastern border).

Green Bay city center is 6.8 km northeast of Ashwaubenon. The other nearest major cities are Milwaukee (186 km south), Chicago (330 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (213 km southwest), Eau Claire (306 km west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (451 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior , Minnesota (527 km northwest).

traffic

The Fox River is navigable through dams and locks for barges that can reach the Mississippi river basin between the port of Green Bay via the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway .

The most important road through Ashwaubenon is the four-lane US Highway 41, a few kilometers away along the Fox River . In the center of Ashwaubenon, the four-lane Wisconsin Highway 172 branches off in a south-easterly direction from US 41 and leaves the place with the bridge over the Fox River. The Wisconsin Highway 32 leads as the main road through the center of Ashwaubenon. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

By Ashwaubenon a railway line today for running Canadian National Railway belonging Wisconsin Central .

The Austin Straubel International Airport is the closest airport to the western border. The nearest major airports are Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (199 km south), O'Hare International Airport in Chicago (311 km in the same direction) and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (454 km west).

Railway Museum

Railway Museum in Ashwaubenon

Ashwaubenon has been home to the National Railroad Museum, an extensive collection of historic locomotives and railroad cars, since 1956 .

population

As of the 2010 census , Ashwaubenon had 16,963 people in 7,421 households. The population density was 513.7 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.25 people lived in each of the 7,421 households.

The racial the population was composed of 90.6 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 2.1 percent Native American, 3.1 percent Asian and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.6 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 51,983  USD . The per capita income was $ 29,335. 9.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved September 1, 2013
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed September 1, 2013

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