Hobart is a village in Brown County in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

. The population was 5,090 at the 2000 census. Hobart is a part of the Green Bay

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...

 Metropolitan Statistical Area

Green Bay metropolitan area

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. A small portion of the village is part of the unincorporated census-designated place

Census-designated place

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 (CDP) given the name of Oneida, Wisconsin

Oneida, Wisconsin

Oneida is an unincorporated community and former census-designated place in the town of Oneida, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,070 at the 2000 census. At the census, part of the CDP lay within the town of Hobart, which has since incorporated as a village, in...

. Most of the CDP is located within the Town of Oneida

Oneida (town), Wisconsin

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 in Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Outagamie is a county in the northeast region of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Its county seat is Appleton. As of the 2009 census estimate, its population was 177,155....

. This CDP is an entity created solely for statistic purposes. Hobart is entirely within the boundaries of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is an Indian reservation of the Oneida tribe on the west side of the Green Bay metropolitan area.-Demography and population:The reservation comprises portions of eastern Outagamie County and western Brown County...

.

History

The village was formerly known as the Town of Hobart, until the entire town incorporated as the Village of Hobart on May 13, 2002. Hobart is named for Episcopal Bishop John Henry Hobart

John Henry Hobart

John Henry Hobart was the third Episcopal bishop of New York .He vigorously promoted the extension of the Episcopal Church in Central and Western New York...

 of New York who sent missionaries to the Oneida people and ministered to them after removal from New York to Wisconsin.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau

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, the village has a total area of 33.3 square miles (86.1 km²), of which, 33.2 square miles (85.9 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it (0.33%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 5,090 people, 1,717 households, and 1,468 families residing in the village. The population density

Population density

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 was 153.5 people per square mile (59.3/km²). There were 1,758 housing units at an average density of 53.0 per square mile (20.5/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 80.57% White, 0.10% African American, 16.66% Native American, 0.69% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.39% from other races

Race (United States Census)

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, and 1.51% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.86% of the population.

There were 1,717 households out of which 40.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.4% were married couples

Marriage

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 living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.5% were non-families. 10.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.20.

In the village the population was spread out with 29.8% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 31.2% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.4 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $69,034, and the median income for a family was $76,626. Males had a median income of $49,813 versus $30,458 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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 for the village was $29,059. About 4.1% of families and 6.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.6% of those under age 18 and 10.6% of those age 65 or over.

External links

• Hobart, Wisconsin village website