Cudahy, Wisconsin
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Location in Wisconsin
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Basic data | |
Foundation : | 1895 (incorporated) |
State : | United States |
State : | Wisconsin |
County : | Milwaukee County |
Coordinates : | 42 ° 58 ′ N , 87 ° 52 ′ W |
Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
18,267 (as of 2010) 1,751,316 (as of 2010) |
Population density : | 1,481.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
Area : | 12.33 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) |
Height : | 221 m |
Postal code : | 53110 |
Area code : | +1 414 |
FIPS : | 55-17975 |
GNIS ID : | 1563607 |
Website : | www.cudahy-wi.gov |
Mayor : | John Hohenfeldt |
![]() Monument to the city's founder Patrick Cudahy in Sheridan Park of Cudahy |
Cudahy is a city (with the status " City ") in Milwaukee County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Cudahy had a population of 18,267.
The city of Cudahy, like all of Milwaukee County, is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area .
geography
Cudahy is located in the southeastern suburb of Milwaukee , between the city of Milwaukee and the west bank of Lake Michigan .
The geographical coordinates of Cudahy are 42 ° 57'35 "north latitude and 87 ° 51'41" west longitude. The urban area extends over an area of 12.33 km².
Central Milwaukee is 7 miles north-northwest. Other neighboring towns of Cudahy are St. Francis (on the northern city limits), Oak Creek (on the southwestern city limits) and South Milwaukee (on the southern city limits).
The closest major cities to Milwaukee are Green Bay (202 km north), Wisconsin's capital Madison (137 km west), Rockford , Illinois (150 km southwest) and Chicago , Illinois (143 km south)
traffic
The Wisconsin State Highway 32 runs as Lake Drive parallel to the shores of Lake Michigan through east of Cudahy. The Wisconsin State Highway 794 runs parallel through the west . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
A Union Pacific Railroad line runs through the city for freight traffic in north-south direction .
To the west, the city is bordered by Milwaukee's Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport .
history
The place was originally called Buckhorn Settlement . Around 1800, the entrepreneur Patrick Cudahy built a meat factory on an area of 280 hectares and the place was renamed Cudahy . In 1895 the place was incorporated as the Village of Cudahy and in 1906 it was elevated to the status of "City".
population
According to the 2010 census , Cudahy had 18,267 people in 8,059 households. The population density was 1481.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.26 people lived in each of the 8,059 households.
The racial the population was composed of 88.8 percent white, 2.7 percent African American, 0.9 percent Native American, 1.4 percent Asian and 3.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 9.7 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
21.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 51,781 USD . The per capita income was $ 24,600. 12.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 21, 2014
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 21, 2014
- ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB). Accessed February 21, 2014
- ^ Cudahy Historical Society . Retrieved February 21, 2014