Laflin, Pennsylvania

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Laflin is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,443 at the time of the 2020 census.<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021">Template:Cite web</ref>

History

Laflin was incorporated as a borough in 1889. It was likely named for one of the owners of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The following year, in 1890, the population of the newly formed borough was just over two hundred. Coal mining led to a population boom in the region.

Laflin witnessed its greatest increase between 1970 and 1980, when the number of residents grew by over 313% (or from 399 people to 1,650 people).

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of Template:Convert, all of it land.

Demographics

Template:US Census population As of the census<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 1,502 people, 612 households, and 452 families residing in the borough.

The population density was Template:Convert. There were 632 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert.

The racial makeup of the borough was 95.61% White, 0.13% African American, 3.66% Asian, 0.13% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.60% of the population.

There were 612 households, out of which 26.6% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 62.9% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% were non-families. 24.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.

The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.90.

In the borough the population was spread out, with 20.5% under the age of eighteen, 4.5% from eighteen to twenty-four, 24.8% from twenty-five to forty-four, 33.4% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 16.8% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-five years.

For every one hundred females there were 88.9 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 86.9 males.

The median income for a household in the borough was $55,658, and the median income for a family was $69,226. Males had a median income of $50,433 compared with that of $29,375 for females.

The per capita income for the borough was $29,581.

Roughly 1.5% of families and 2.5% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 4.0% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 3.9% of those who were aged sixty-five or over. Template:Clear

Government

The government consists of a mayor and a five-member borough council. Template:As of, the mayor is William C Kennedy, and the members of the Borough Council are Marc Malvizzi (Council President), Joe Boos (Vice President), Drew Malvizzi, Melissa Werner, and Carl Yastremski.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>