Brooklyn (Wisconsin)

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Brooklyn
Brooklyn (Wisconsin)
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
Counties : Dane County
Green County
Coordinates : 42 ° 51 ′  N , 89 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 51 ′  N , 89 ° 22 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 1,401 (as of 2010)
568,593 (as of 2010)
Population density : 496.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.82 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 300 m
Postal code : 53521
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-10075
GNIS ID : 1562238
Website : www.brooklynwi.gov
Mayor : Nadine Walsten (President)

Brooklyn is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Dane County and Green County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Brooklyn had 1,401 residents.

Brooklyn is part of the Madison metropolitan area .

geography

Brooklyn is located in south-central Wisconsin, in the southern suburbs of its capital, Madison . The intersection of the three states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois is located on the Mississippi and is 135 km west-southwest.

The geographical coordinates of Brooklyn are 42 ° 51'13 "north latitude and 89 ° 22'13" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​2.82 km².

Central Madison is 16 miles north. Neighboring towns to Brooklyn are Oregon (9 km north), Stoughton (12 miles northeast), Dunkirk (11 miles east), Evansville (12 miles southeast), and Belleville ( 12 miles west).

The nearest major cities to Madison are Green Bay (252 km northeast), Milwaukee (156 km east), Chicago (210 km southeast) and Rockford (80.3 km southeast).

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 92 runs through the center of Brooklyn in a west-east direction , and the Wisconsin State Highway 104 at its northern end point . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airport is Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (36.3 km north-northeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Brooklyn had 1,401 people in 508 households. The population density was 496.8 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.76 people lived in each of the 508 households.

The racial the population was composed of 95.1 percent white, 2.0 percent African American, 0.1 percent (one person) Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.9 percent of the population.

30.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 5.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.6 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 72,115  USD . The per capita income was $ 25,778. 6.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved November 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on November 29, 2013

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