Jackson (Wisconsin)

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Jackson
Jackson (Wisconsin)
Jackson
Jackson
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Washington County
Coordinates : 43 ° 19 ′  N , 88 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′  N , 88 ° 10 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
6,753 (as of 2010)
1,751,316 (as of 2010)
Population density : 849.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 7.95 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 )
Height : 274 m
Postal code : 53037
Area code : +1 262
FIPS : 55-37675
GNIS ID : 1583443
Website : www.villageofjackson.com
Mayor : Wendy Kannenberg (President)

Jackson is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Washington County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Jackson had 6,753 residents.

Jackson is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area .

geography

Jackson is located in southeast Wisconsin, in the northwest suburb of Milwaukee . The geographical coordinates of Jackson are 43 ° 19'26 "north latitude and 88 ° 10'00" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​7.95 km². The parish Jackson is surrounded on the north, east and south by the Town of Jackson and the Town of Polk in the west, without belonging to any of these towns.

Jackson's neighbors are West Bend (12.6 km north), Saukville (15.7 km east-northeast), Grafton (17.4 km east), Cedarburg (16.3 km east-southeast), Mequon (14.8 km southeast), Germantown (9 miles southeast), Richfield (7 miles southwest), Slinger (6.4 miles west), and Allenton (13 miles northwest).

Milwaukee city center is 27 miles to the southeast. The other closest major cities are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (147 km north), Chicago in Illinois (193 km south), Rockford in Illinois (178 km southwest) and Wisconsin's capital Madison (117 km west southwest).

traffic

In a north-south direction on a four-lane stretch of US Highway 45 leads through the west of Jackson. Wisconsin State Highway 60 is the main road through Jackson in a west-east direction . All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

In north-south direction, a railway line of the leading Canadian National Railway belonging Wisconsin Central through the center of Jackson.

The nearest airport is Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (53.3 kilometers to the southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Jackson had 6,753 people in 2,870 households. The population density was 849.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.36 people lived in 2870 households.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.2 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

24.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 56,159  USD . The per capita income was $ 29,075. 2.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 12, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 12, 2014

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