Railroad is a borough in York County,

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, United States. The population was two hundred fifty-nine at the time of the 2020 census.

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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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