Price County

administration
Price County Courthouse
US state :	Wisconsin
Administrative headquarters :	Phillips
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 126 Cherry Street Phillips, WI 54555-1249
Foundation :	1879
Made up from:	Chippewa County Lincoln County
Area code :	001 715
Demographics
Residents :	14,159 (2010)
Population density :	4.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	3311 km²
Water surface :	67 km²
map

Website : www.co.price.wi.us

The Price County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , the county had 14,159 residents and a population density of 4.4 people per square kilometer. By 2013 the population had decreased to 13,802. The county seat is Phillips .

geography

The Flambeau River in Park Falls

Timms Hill , the highest point in Wisconsin

The county is located in north-central Wisconsin and has an area of 3,311 square kilometers, of which 67 square kilometers are water.

The Flambeau River flows through the north-west of the county and forms part of the Mississippi River basin over the Chippewa River .

With the 595 meter high Timms Hill is the highest point in Wisconsin in the southeast of Price County.

The following neighboring counties border Price County:

Ashland County		Iron County , Vilas County
Sawyer County , Rusk County		Oneida County
	Taylor County	Lincoln County

history

Price County was formed in 1879 from parts of Chippewa County and Lincoln County. It was named after William T. Price (1824-1886), a former President of the Wisconsin Senate .

population

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	785	-
1890	5258	569.8%
1900	9106	73.2%
1910	13,795	51.5%
1920	18,517	34.2%
1930	17,284	-6.7%
1940	18,467	6.8%
1950	16,344	-11.5%
1960	14,370	-12.1%
1970	14,520	1 %
1980	15,788	8.7%
1990	15,600	-1.2%
2000	15,822	1.4%
2010	14,159	-10.5%
2013 estimate	13,802	-2.5%
1900–1990 2000 2010–2013

As of the 2010 census , Price County had 14,159 people in 6,890 households. The population density was 4.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.02 people lived in each of the 6890 households.

The racial the population was composed of 96.8 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian, 0.4 percent Polynesian and other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.6 percent of the population.

17.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.2 percent of the population were female.

The median income for a household was 42,206 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,925. 14.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Price County localities

Citys

Villages

Census-designated place (CDP)

Ogema

Other Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partially in Lincoln and Oneida Counties}

structure

In addition to the two cities and three villages, Price County is divided into 17 towns :

Town	Population (2010)	FIPS
Town of Catawba	269	55-13200
Town of Eisenstein	630	55-22950
Town of Elk	988	55-23200
Town of Emery	297	55-23975
Town of Fifield	901	55-25775
Town of Flambeau	489	55-26050

Town	Population (2010)	FIPS
Town of Georgetown	171	55-28750
Town of Hackett	169	55-31925
Town of Harmony	222	55-32675
Town of Hill	333	55-34725
Town of Kennan	356	55-39200
Town of Knox	341	55-40175