Oxford (Wisconsin)

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Oxford
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Location in Wisconsin
Oxford (Wisconsin)
Oxford
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Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Marquette County
Coordinates : 43 ° 46 ′  N , 89 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′  N , 89 ° 33 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 607 (as of 2010)
Population density : 224.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 2.7 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 )
Height : 265 m
Postal code : 53952
Area code : +1 608
FIPS : 55-60900
GNIS ID : 1583886
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Center of Oxford

Oxford is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Marquette County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Oxford had 607 residents.

geography

Oxford is located in the southeastern center of Wisconsin on Neenah Creek , which is dammed up to Neenah Lake , which is part of the catchment area of Lake Michigan via the Fox River and Lake Winnebago .

The geographical coordinates of Oxford are 43 ° 46'21 "north latitude and 89 ° 32'43" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​2.7 km² and is completely surrounded by the Town of Oxford without belonging to it.

Neighboring towns of Oxford are Westfield ( 10.9 miles northeast), Montello (12.9 miles east), Packwaukee (6.8 miles east-southeast), Endeavor (14.3 km southeast) and Briggsville (11.7 miles south) and Brooks (10.2 km northwest).

The nearest major cities are Wausau (149 km north), Appleton (129 km east-northeast), Green Bay on Lake Michigan (177 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (189 km southeast), Chicago in Illinois (324 km south-southeast) , Wisconsin's capital Madison (59.4 miles south), Rockford , Illinois (204 km in the same direction) and La Crosse on the Mississippi (154 km west).

traffic

The Wisconsin State Highway 82 is the main road in a west-east direction through the metropolitan area of ​​Oxford. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

A railway line for freight traffic of the Union Pacific Railroad runs through Oxford in a north-west-south-east direction .

The nearest airports are Dane County Regional Airport in Madison (56 miles south) and Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee (203 miles southeast).

population

According to the 2010 census , Oxford had 607 people in 248 households. The population density was 224.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.45 people lived in each of the 248 households.

The racial the population was composed of 93.9 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.6 percent Asian and 3.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 4.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.1 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 49,063  USD . The per capita income was $ 20,565. 8.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Known residents

Individual evidence

  1. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved May 15, 2014
  2. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on May 15, 2014
  3. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation - Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved May 15, 2014

Web links

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