New Buffalo is a

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Perry County, Pennsylvania Perry County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,842. The county seat is New Bloomfield. The county was created on March 22, 1820, and was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the ...

, United States. The population was 124 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the

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Geography

New Buffalo is located at (40.454175, -76.969914). According to the

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, the borough has a total area of 0.1 square mile (0.2 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 123 people, 57 households, and 36 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 59 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 95.12%

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, 2.44%

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, 0.81%

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, and 1.63% from two or more races. There were 57 households, out of which 19.3% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 40.4% were

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living together, 15.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.3% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.72. In the borough the population was spread out, with 17.9% under the age of eighteen, 8.9% from eighteen to twenty-four, 22.0% from twenty-five to forty-four, 38.2% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 13.0% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-six years. For every one hundred females, there were 92.2 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 98.0 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $31,250, and the median income for a family was $28,750. Males had a median income of $31,250 compared with that of $23,750 for females. The

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for the borough was $17,276. There were 20.6% of families and 22.0% of the population living below the

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, including 50.0% of those who were under the age of eighteen. None of those were over the age of sixty-four.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1800 Pennsylvania populated places on the Susquehanna River Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area Boroughs in Perry County, Pennsylvania 1848 establishments in Pennsylvania