Pewaukee (Village)

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Pewaukee
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Pewaukee
Pewaukee
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Waukesha County
Coordinates : 43 ° 5 ′  N , 88 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 5 ′  N , 88 ° 15 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
8,166 (as of 2010)
1,751,316 (as of 2010)
Population density : 763.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 11.73 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of
which 10.70 km 2  (approx. 4 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 266 m
Postal code : 53072
Area code : +1 262
FIPS : 55-62250
GNIS ID : 1583915
Website : www.villageofpewaukeewi.us
Mayor : Jeff Knutson (President)

Pewaukee is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Waukesha County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Pewaukee had 8,166 residents. By 2013 the population had increased to 8,215.

The Pewaukee parish is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area .

geography

Pewaukee is located in the western suburbs of the city of Milwaukee on Pewaukee Lake and about 35 km west of Lake Michigan .

The geographical coordinates of Pewaukee are 43 ° 05'09 "north latitude and 88 ° 15'40" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​11.73 km², which is distributed over 10.70 km² of land and 1.03 km² of water.

Milwaukee city center is 20 miles east. The Pewaukee parish is almost entirely enclosed by the City of Pewaukee . Other neighboring towns are Sussex (9.1 km north-northeast), Menomonee Falls (20 km northeast), Butler (17 km east-northeast), Brookfield (15.1 km east-southeast), Waukesha (11.4 km south-southeast), Wales (16.8 km southwest), Delafield (10 miles west-southwest), Hartland (9 km west-northwest), and Merton (10.1 km northwest).

The closest major cities to Milwaukee are Green Bay (180 km north), Wisconsin's capital Madison (99.8 km west), Rockford in the neighboring state of Illinois (139 km southwest) and Chicago , Illinois (175 km south-southeast).

traffic

The Interstate 94 , the shortest connection from Milwaukee to Madison, runs east-west direction south of Pewaukee. From this, the four-lane Wisconsin State Highway 16 branches off in a northerly direction and runs as the main road through the municipality of Pewaukee. Wisconsin State Highways 164 and 190 also meet in Pewaukee . All other roads in Pewaukee 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 the municipality of Pewaukee in a west-east direction .

With the Waukesha County Airport is located 9.8 km south-southwest of Pewaukee a small airfield. The nearest commercial airport is Milwaukee's Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, 43 km east-southeast .

population

According to the 2010 census , Pewaukee had 8,166 people in 3,903 households. The population density was 763.2 people per square kilometer. Statistically speaking, there were 2.08 people in each of the 3,903 households.

The racial the population was composed of 92.4 percent white, 1.1 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 3.9 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and 1.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.4 percent were 65 years or older. 52.9 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 63,544  USD . The per capita income was $ 35,926. 6.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Village of Pewaukee - Village Board. Retrieved August 5, 2014
  2. a b American Fact Finder.Retrieved August 5, 2014
  3. United States Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Village of Pewaukee, Wisconsin ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov
  4. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on August 5, 2014
  5. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation - Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Retrieved August 5, 2014

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