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Welcome to the Oak Creek Home page. The Oak Creek Home page provides as much information as possible on Oak Creek. Knowing Oak Creek’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Oak Creek’s Home page, you will also find Oak Creek’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Oak Creek has a population of 36321. 49.2% of Oak Creek’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.8 are female. 51.1% of Oak Creek is married and 62.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $239,718, and the average rent is $1,115. Household median income in Oak Creek is $75,657, and the individual median income is $42,407. Oak Creek’s Ethnic is the following: White(83.3%), Hispanic(9.4%), Asian(5.6%), Multiple(5.6%), Black(3.3%), Other(1.7%), Native(0.4%), Pacific(0.1%).


On January 2, 1838, the territorial legislature divided Milwaukee County into two towns: the Town of Milwaukee, encompassing everything north of the present Greenfield Avenue, and the Town of Lake encompassing everything south of the present Greenfield Avenue; "and the polls of election shall be opened at the house of Elisha Higgins, in said town." On March 8, 1839, a new Town of Kinnikennick was created, encompassing the western part of Lake (later the Towns of Greenfield and Franklin); and on August 13, 1840, the south portion of the Town of Lake was split off to form the town of Oak Creek.


As of the 1840 census, the population of the Town of Lake (then including Oak Creek) was 418.In 1955 (JOBS), the Town of Oak Creek, then still semi-rural with a population of 4807 in the 1950 census, was incorporated as a city under the terms of Wisconsin statute 66.0215, also known as "The Oak Creek Law." The Oak Creek Law was crafted by Town Attorney Tony Basile to prevent Oak Creek's annexation by the City of Milwaukee, which by annexations (including the 1954 annexation of the remainder of the Town of Lake) was now bordering Oak Creek and had already annexed one small portion of the town; and was shepherded through the legislature with the help of state Democratic party legislative joint committee chairman Leland McParland, who was the state senator for Oak Creek.In recent years the 85 acre site called the Drexel Town Square, built on part of the site where the gigantic AC Spark Plug factory once stood, has become the city's newest economic venture.


It is home to a number of retail shops, restaurants, a hotel, residential buildings, and a medical facility. The Civic Center includes city hall and the public library. The town square also features a farmers market, splash pad, ice rink, and an outdoor amphitheater. The town square development won the 2016 Vision Award from the Milwaukee Business Journal.On August 5, 2012, a white supremacist opened fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek.


The white supremacist killed six people and injured several more before being killed by Oak Creek Police.


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