Laona, Wisconsin

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Location in Wisconsin
Laona, Wisconsin
Laona
Laona
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Forest County
Coordinates : 45 ° 34 ′  N , 88 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 34 ′  N , 88 ° 40 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 583 (as of 2010)
Population density : 115.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 5.05 km 2  (approx. 2 mi 2 )
Height : 480 m
Postal code : 54541
Area code : +1 715,534
FIPS : 55-42475
GNIS ID : 1579628

Laona is a settlement on community-free area in Forest County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 Laona had 583 inhabitants.

geography

Laona is located in northeast Wisconsin, around 50 km south of the Michigan border . The geographical coordinates of Laona are 45 ° 33'53 "north latitude and 88 ° 40'26" west longitude. The local area extends over an area of ​​5.05 km² and forms the center of the Town of Laona .

Neighboring places to Laona are Laona Junction (8.2 miles north), Blackwell (6.5 miles southeast), Wabeno (9.2 miles south), and Crandon (12 miles west).

The closest major cities are Sault Ste. Marie in the Canadian province of Ontario (436 km east-northeast, across from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ), Green Bay on Lake Michigan (156 km south-southeast), Wisconsin's capital Madison (328 km south-southwest), Wausau (133 km southwest), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (406 km west southwest) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (369 km west northwest).

traffic

The US Highway 8 runs from west to east direction as the main road through Laona and connects it with the Wisconsin Wisconsin Highway 32 . All other roads are subordinate country roads, partly unpaved roads or inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest regional airports are Rhinelander – Oneida County Airport (65.7 km west), Central Wisconsin Airport near Wausau (156 km southwest) and Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay (150 km south-southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Laona had 583 people in 245 households. The population density was 115.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.38 people lived in each of the 245 households.

The racial the population was composed of 96.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 1.5 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Polynesians and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.9 percent of the population.

24.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.6 percent were 65 years or older. 49.4 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 41,875  USD . The per capita income was $ 17,718. 9.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved February 13, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on February 13, 2014

Web links

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