Vernon County, Wisconsin

administration
Vernon County Courthouse
US state :	Wisconsin
Administrative headquarters :	Viroqua
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse Courthouse Annex Viroqua, WI 54665-0000
Foundation :	1851
Made up from:	Crawford County Richland County
Area code :	001 608
Demographics
Residents :	29,773 (2010)
Population density :	14.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2114 km²
Water surface :	56 km²
map

Website : www.vernoncounty.org

The Vernon County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 , the county had 29,773 people and a population density of 14.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Viroqua .

geography

The county is located in central southwest Wisconsin, in the Driftless Area known as the Ice Age-shaped region that stretches across southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, and far northwestern Illinois. During the last ice age, the so-called Wisconsin Glaciation , the region remained ice-free, so that the river valleys could cut deeper into the plateau during this time.

Vernon County is bounded to the west by the Mississippi , which also forms the natural border between Wisconsin and Iowa and Minnesota . Vernom County covers an area of 2,114 square kilometers, of which 56 square kilometers are water.

The following neighboring counties border Vernon County:

La Crosse County	Monroe County	Juneau County
Houston County, Minnesota		Sauk County
Allamakee County, Iowa	Crawford County	Richland County

history

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	28,351	-
1910	28,116	-0.8%
1920	29,252	4%
1930	28,537	-2.4%
1940	29,940	4.9%
1950	27,906	-6.8%
1960	25,663	-8th %
1970	24,557	-4.3%
1980	25,642	4.4%
1990	25,617	-0.1%
2000	28,056	9.5%
2010	29,773	6.1%
1900–1990 2000 2010–2012

Vernon County was formed in 1851 from parts of Crawford County and Richland Counties as Bad Ax County . It was later renamed after the Mount Vernon manor , home of George Washington .

population

According to the 2010 census , Vernon County had 29,773 people in 11,737 households. The population density was 14.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.51 people lived in each of the 11,737 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.1 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 44,676 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,183. 15.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Vernon County localities

Citys

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partly in Crawford County

2 - partly in Richland County}

structure

Vernon County is divided into 21 towns in addition to the three cities and nine villages :

Town	Pop. (2010)	FIPS
Mountains	1364	55-06900
Christiana	931	55-14675
Clinton	1358	55-15675
Coon	728	55-16875
Forest	634	55-26550
Franklin	1140	55-27400
Genoa	789	55-28650
Greenwood	847	55-31625
Hamburg	973	55-32225
Harmony	755	55-32725
Hillsboro	807	55-34850

Town	Pop. (2010)	FIPS
Jefferson	1143	55-37975
Kickapoo	626	55-39475
Liberty	252	55-43900
Strong	363	55-76725
sterling	633	55-77075
union	700	55-81675
Viroqua	1718	55-82950
Webster	778	55-85050
Wheatland	561	55-86525
Whitestown	502	55-86900

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