Okauchee Lake

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Okauchee Lake
Okauchee Lake (Wisconsin)
Okauchee Lake
Okauchee Lake
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Waukesha County
Coordinates : 43 ° 7 ′  N , 88 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 7 ′  N , 88 ° 26 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
4,422 (status: 2010)
1,751,316 (status: 2010)
Population density : 491.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 13 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of
which 9 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 268 m
Postal code : 53066
Area code : +1 262
FIPS : 55-59650
GNIS ID : 1867663

Okauchee Lake is a settlement on community-free area in Waukesha County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP) . In 2010 , Okauchee Lake had 4,422 residents.

Okauchee Lake is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area .

geography

Okauchee Lake is located in southeastern Wisconsin on the lake of the same name. Lake Michigan about 50 km to the east.

The geographical coordinates of Okauchee Lake are 43 ° 07'24 "north latitude and 88 ° 26'26" west longitude. The place extends over an area of ​​13 km², which is spread over 9 km² of land and 4 km² of water.

Milwaukee city ​​center is 32 miles east. Other neighboring towns are Merton (17.8 km east-northeast), Chenequa (7.6 km east), Nashotah (6.5 km east-southeast), Delafield (10.6 km south-east), Dousman (18 km south), Oconomowoc (6, 8 km west-southwest) and Lac La Belle (11 km west-northwest).

The nearest major cities besides Milwaukee are Green Bay (119 miles north), Wisconsin's capital Madison (53 miles west), Rockford in the neighboring state of Illinois (90 miles southwest) and Chicago , Illinois (119 miles south-southeast).

traffic

The four-lane Wisconsin State Highway 16 runs in a west-east direction along the southern town boundary. All other roads in Okauchee Lake are minor country roads, unpaved driveways or inter-urban connecting roads.

A railway line for freight traffic of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) runs through Okauchee Lake parallel to WIS 16 .

With the Waukesha County Airport there is a small airfield 29 km southeast of Okauchee Lake. The nearest commercial airport is Milwaukee's Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, 62 km east-southeast .

population

According to the 2010 census , Okauchee Lake had 4,422 people in 1,747 households. The population density was 491.3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.53 people lived in 1747 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.3 percent of the population, regardless of ethnicity.

23.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.1 percent were 65 years or older. 48.5 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 87,212  USD . The per capita income was $ 44,947. 8.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder.Retrieved August 5, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on August 5, 2014
  3. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation - Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved August 5, 2014

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