Sussex (Wisconsin)

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Sussex
Sussex (Wisconsin)
Sussex
Sussex
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
Foundation : 1843 (settled)
1924 (incorporated)
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Waukesha County
Coordinates : 43 ° 8 ′  N , 88 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 8 ′  N , 88 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
10,518 (status: 2010)
1,751,316 (status: 2010)
Population density : 532.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 19.74 km 2  (approx. 8 mi 2 )
Height : 280 m
Postal code : 53089
Area code : +1 262
FIPS : 55-78750
GNIS ID : 1575137
Website : www.villagesussex.org
Mayor : Gregory Goetz (President)

Sussex is a municipality (with the status " Village ") in Waukesha County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , Sussex had 10,518 residents. By 2013 the population increased to 10,695.

Sussex is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area .

geography

Sussex is located in the western suburbs of the city of Milwaukee , around 30 km west of Lake Michigan .

The geographical coordinates of Sussex are 43 ° 08'02 "north latitude and 88 ° 13'19" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​19.74 km² and is almost completely surrounded by the Town of Lisbon without belonging to it.

Neighboring Sussex towns are Colgate (9.6 km north), Lannon (5.7 km northeast), Menomonee Falls (11.2 km in the same direction), Brookfield (16 km southeast), the town of Pewaukee (10.6 km south), the parish of Pewaukee (9.3 km south-southwest), Hartland (14.3 km west-southwest), and Merton (7.7 km west-northwest).

Milwaukee city center is 22 miles east-southeast. The closest major cities to Milwaukee are Green Bay (182 km north), Wisconsin's capital Madison (108 km west), Rockford in the neighboring state of Illinois (147 km southwest) and Chicago , Illinois (178 km south-southeast).

traffic

The Interstate 94 , the shortest connection from Milwaukee to Madison, extends in the east-west direction by the municipality. From this, the four-lane US Highway 16 branches off in a northerly direction. In addition, Wisconsin State Highways 74 , 164 and 190 meet in Sussex . All other roads in Sussex are minor country roads, unpaved driveways or inter-urban connecting roads.

Two freight railroad lines, the Canadian National Railway (CN) and the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) , cross in Sussex .

With the Waukesha County Airport there is a small airfield 15 km south of Sussex. The nearest commercial airport is Milwaukee's Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, 46 km southeast .

population

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1960 1087 -
1970 2758 153.7%
1980 3482 26.3%
1990 5039 44.7%
2000 8828 75.2%
2010 10,518 19.1%
2013 estimate 10,695 1.7%
1960–2000 2010 2013

According to the 2010 census , Sussex had 10,518 people in 4,039 households. The population density was 532.8 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.6 people lived in 4039 households.

The racial the population was composed of 95.2 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 2.1 percent Asian and 0.5 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.4 percent of the population.

28.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 9.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population were female.

The average annual income for a household was 72,555  USD . The per capita income was $ 31,509. 5.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Village Board.Retrieved August 1, 2014
  2. a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 1, 2014
  3. a b United States Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - 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 1, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov
  4. Distance information according to Google Maps. Retrieved on August 1, 2014
  5. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation - Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB) Accessed August 1, 2014
  6. ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved August 1, 2014

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