Railroad is a borough in

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, United States. The population was 259 at the 2020 census. It is part of the York–Hanover metropolitan area.

History

The borough of Railroad owes its existence, and its name, to what became the

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, which was built to connect

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and

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. The Railroad Borough Historic District was listed on the

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in 1984. Laura Randall described Railroad as a "tiny town of three hundred people near the Maryland border... home to the Jackson House B&B, a popular crab shack, and not much else."

Geography

Railroad is located at (39.756761, -76.699396). According to the

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

Demographics

At the time of the 2000

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, there were three hundred people, one hundred and twelve households and seventy-nine families living in the borough. The population density was . There were one hundred and sixteen housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 96.33%

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, 1.67%

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and 2.00% Native American.

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or Latino of any race were 0.67% of the population. There were one hundred and twelve households, of which 41.1% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 57.1% were

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living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.6% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.1% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.16. 29.0% of the population were under the age of eighteen, 8.3% from eighteen to twenty-four, 33.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 20.7% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 8.3% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-six years. For every one hundred females there were 98.7 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 86.8 males. The

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was $37,917 and the median family income was $47,813. Males had a median income of $29,286 compared with that of $25,417 for females. The

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was $16,709. Roughly 1.3% of families and 4.7% of the population were living below the

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, including 16.7% of those aged sixty-five or over. None were under the age of eighteen.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1792 Boroughs in York County, Pennsylvania 1871 establishments in Pennsylvania