Landingville is a

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in Schuylkill County,

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, United States. The population was 137 at the time of the 2020 census.

Geography

Landingville is located at (40.626509, -76.123342). According to the

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, the borough has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 175 people, 68 households, and 45 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 74 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 99.43%

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, and 0.57% from two or more races. There were 68 households, out of which 35.3% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 54.4% were

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living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.4% were non-families. 25.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.2% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.04. In the borough the population was spread out, with 25.7% under the age of eighteen, 8.6% from eighteen to twenty-four, 28.6% from twenty-five to forty-four, 25.7% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 11.4% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-seven years. For every one hundred females, there were 88.2 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 78.1 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $40,417, and the median income for a family was $41,667. Males had a median income of $33,571 compared with that of $18,750 for females. The

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for the borough was $16,965. Roughly 4.2% of families and 9.5% of the population were living below the

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, including 12.8% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 21.4% of those who were aged sixty-five or over.

Gallery

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in Landingville.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1887 Boroughs in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Populated places on the Schuylkill River 1887 establishments in Pennsylvania