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By Carlton DeWitt, Editor and Publisher
On Friday, September 6th, I was busy with my lawn mower at our home on Maple Street in Glenwood City, and as I rounded the front corner of our house, there stood a young lady with a small brief case. I stopped the mower and she presented me with her credentials and informed me that she was from the Census Bureau.
I had just recently read that the Census Bureau had hired some 25,000 new people for surveying the country. I quickly expected that she would hand over a survey for the 2020 census count that will begin next year.
But she did not; instead I got a half size piece of paper printed on both sides. One size was in English and the other in Spanish. It was only a notice that any information collected by the Census Bureau would be confidential.
As I sat on the lawn mower she asked just a couple of questions and did not write anything down, but asked if we had got the forms for the census back in 2010. I told her we did not and that a lady from the bureau called upon us because of it and she called every month for a year to make sure that our family had not grown.
The conversation switched to why we did not get those forms nine years ago and I noted to her that our mailing address is not our street address and that if they sent us a letter to our street address, we would not get it because we get our mail from box at the local post office.
She quickly informed me that census forms are only sent to street addresses and that they do not use post office box numbers in the census taking. Well, I quickly asked how would I get the forms for next year’s census and I was not provided with a definite answer.
The day the census lady was at my home was the day of all the garage sales in the community as part of Rustic Lore Days and as we talked, I noticed that the pull over top she was wearing had a small round sticker at about mid section of her body. The tag read “25c”.
So she moved on to the neighbor’s house and the last I saw of her, she was writing down numbers off mailboxes on Maple Street.
So later I wondered what information the census obtained about our community in 2010. I looked it up on Wikipedia and information from Boyceville also, just for comparison.
The population of Glenwood City in 2010 was listed as 1,242 and was in 2017 estimated at 1,213, while Boyceville had 1089 people and in 2017 they had gained 10 people. Glenwood City’s elevation is 1030 feet and 945 feet at Boyceville. I thought that the difference was somewhat more than I had figured. I remembered that the elevation at the old depot in Glenwood City was at 996. So the 1030 feet must be up one of the 57 hills in town.
Glenwood City has a total of 2.49 square miles and Boyceville has 3.79 with .04 being water surface.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,242 people in Glenwood City with 509 households, and 328 families. There were 561 housing units at an average density of 225.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 97.7 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian, 0.6 percent from other races, and 1. 1 percent from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino was 1.9 percent of the population.
There were 509 households of which 33.6 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.2 percent were married couples living together, 15.7 percent had a female householder with no husband and 6.5 percent had a male households with no wife present, and 35.6 percent were non-families. 32.6 percent of all households were made up of individuals and 17.3 percent had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.91.
The median age in the city was 37.7 years. The median income in 2010 was $36,966 and the family median income was $45,417.
For the village of Boyceville in 2010, there were 1,086 people in 454 households, and 295 families residing in the village. There were 494 housing units with the racial makeup of the village was 97.5 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.6 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian, 0.8 percent from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino were 1.7 percent
There were 454 households of which 34.8 had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.3 percent were married couples living together, 12.1 percent had a female householder with no husband present, 6.6 percent had a male householder with no wife present, and 35 percent were non-families. 27.8 percent of all households were made up of individuals and 11 percent had someone living alone who was 65 years or age of older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.87.
The median age in the village was 36.9 years. The median income in 2010 was $31,250 and the family median income was $36,389.
