Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania

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Shinglehouse is a borough in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,108 at the time of the 2020 census.<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021"/>

The community was named for a landmark shingled inn near the original town site.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Geography

Shinglehouse is located at Template:Coord (41.964182, -78.193188).<ref name="GR1">Template:Cite web</ref>

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 kmTemplate:Sup), all land.

Demographics

Template:US Census population As of the census<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were one thousand two hundred and fifty people, five hundred and thirteen households and three hundred and nineteen families residing in the borough.

The population density was Template:Convert. There were five hundred and fifty housing units at an average density of Template:Convert.

The racial makeup of the borough was 98.24% White, 0.16% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.32% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.80% of the population.

There were five hundred and thirteen households, out of which 30.0% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 51.3% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.8% were non-families. 34.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.5% 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 3.19.

In the borough the population was spread out, with 27.5% under the age of eighteen, 6.7% from eighteen to twenty-four, 25.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 20.9% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 19.2% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-eight years.

For every one hundred females there were 92.0 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 84.1 males.

The median income for a household in the borough was $25,987, and the median income for a family was $35,750. Males had a median income of $30,417 compared with that of $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $13,253.

About 9.8% of families and 13.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.0% of those under age 18 and 15.7% of those aged sixty-five or over.