Bowmanstown is a borough in

Carbon County, Pennsylvania Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. The county is also part of Pennsylvania's Coal Region and Northeastern Pennsylvania. T ...

. It is part of

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. The population was 937 at the 2010 census. The borough is at an elevation of . It is located west of Palmerton and south of Lehighton off Pennsylvania Route 248.

Geography

Bowmanstown is located in southern Carbon County at (40.800737, -75.662167), on the northeast bank of the Lehigh River. It is bordered on the east and north by Lower Towamensing Township, on the southeast by the borough of Palmerton, and on the southwest and west by East Penn Township. According to the

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, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and , or 3.59%, is water.

Transportation

As of 2013, there were of public roads in Bowmanstown, of which were maintained by the

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(PennDOT) and were maintained by the borough. Pennsylvania Route 248 is the main highway serving Bowmanstown. It follows a northwest-southeast alignment across the southern and western portions of the borough, parallel to the Lehigh River.

Pennsylvania Route 895 Pennsylvania Route 895 (PA 895) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is an east–west route, running from PA 443 in Pine Grove in Schuylkill County east to and PA 248 in Bowmanstown in Carbon County. PA 895 is a two-l ...

begins at PA 248 in Bowmanstown and heads southwestward across the Lehigh River.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 895 people, 389 households, and 257 families residing in the borough. The

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was 1,156.2 people per square mile (448.8/km²). There were 417 housing units at an average density of 538.7 per square mile (209.1/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 99.44%

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, 0.22% Asian, and 0.34% from two or more races.

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of any race were 0.89% of the population. There were 389 households, out of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.9% were non-families. 28.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.77. In the borough the population was spread out, with 20.0% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 92.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.4 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $34,688, and the median income for a family was $39,018. Males had a median income of $31,845 versus $20,913 for females. The

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for the borough was $16,956. About 7.4% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the

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, including 10.5% of those under age 18 and 12.3% of those age 65 or over.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1808 Boroughs in Carbon County, Pennsylvania