Weston, Wisconsin

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Weston
Weston, Wisconsin
Weston
Weston
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wisconsin
County : Marathon County
Coordinates : 44 ° 53 ′  N , 89 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 53 ′  N , 89 ° 33 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
Metropolitan Area :
14,868 (as of 2010)
134,063 (as of 2010)
Population density : 266 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 55.89 km 2  (approx. 22 mi 2 )
Height : 381 m
Postal code : 54476
Area code : +1 534, 715
FIPS : 55-86025
GNIS ID : 1761601
Website : www.westonwisconsin.org
Mayor : Loren White (President)

Weston is a community (with the status " Village ") in Marathon County in the US -amerikanischen State Wisconsin . In 2010 Weston had 14,868 residents.

Weston is part of the  Wausau Metropolitan Statistical Area , which coincides with Marathon County.

geography

Weston is located in central Wisconsin on the Eau Claire River , a tributary of the Wisconsin River that flows into the Mississippi .

The geographical coordinates of Weston are 44 ° 53'27 "north latitude and 89 ° 32'51" west longitude. The municipality extends over an area of ​​55.89 km².

Neighboring towns of Weston are Ringle (11.5 km east), Kronenwetter (on the southern parish boundary ), Schofield and Rothschild (on the western parish boundary ) and Wausau (on the northwestern parish boundary).

The closest other larger cities besides Wausau are Green Bay on Lake Michigan (139 km east-southeast), Appleton (140 km southeast), Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee (282 km in the same direction), Wisconsin's capital Madison (228 km south), La Crosse am Mississippi (231 km southwest), Eau Claire (171 km west), the Twin Cities in Minnesota (294 km in the same direction) and Duluth on Lake Superior in Minnesota (380 km northwest).

traffic

The four-lane Wisconsin State Highway 29 runs east-west through the community of Weston. The Business US 51 leads the church through the far northwest. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.

Weston is on the Canadian National Railway (CN) network for freight traffic .

With the Wausau Downtown Airport there is a small airfield 10.2 km northwest. The nearest commercial airport is Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee (20 km southwest).

population

According to the 2010 census , Weston had 14,868 people in 5772 households. The population density was 266 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.54 people lived in each of the 5772 households.

The racial the population was composed of 87.7 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 8.7 percent Asian and 0.8 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.0 percent of the population.

27.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 11.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.5 percent of the population was female.

The average annual income for a household was 54,770  USD . The per capita income was $ 28,325. 7.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Individual evidence

  1. President Loren White ( Memento of the original from March 22, 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 March 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wi-weston.civicplus.com
  2. a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved March 21, 2014
  3. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on March 21, 2014
  4. ^ Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Railroad Map (PDF; 379 kB). Accessed March 21, 2014

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