Sandy Ridge is an unincorporated community and

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(CDP) in

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, United States. It is part of the

State College, Pennsylvania State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a college town, dominated economically, culturally and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania Sta ...

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. The population was 407 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Sandy Ridge is located in Pennsylvania, at (40.811904, -78.232142), southwest of the center of Rush Township. It sits at an elevation of , northwest of the physical Sandy Ridge, the local expression of the

Allegheny Front The Allegheny Front is the major southeast- or east-facing escarpment in the Allegheny Mountains in southern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and western Virginia, USA. The Allegheny Front forms the boundary between the Rid ...

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passes through the community, leading northwest to Osceola Mills on

Moshannon Creek Moshannon Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertl ...

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forms the eastern edge of the community, leading north to Philipsburg (also on Moshannon Creek) and south over the Allegheny Front to

Interstate 99 Interstate 99 (I-99) is an Interstate Highway in the United States with two segments: one located in central Pennsylvania, and the other in southern New York. The southern terminus of the route is near exit 146 of the Pennsylvania Turn ...

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. According to the

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, the Sandy Ridge CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 407 people, 170 households, and 129 families residing in the CDP. The

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was 620.1 people per square mile (239.4/km). There were 194 housing units at an average density of 295.6/sq mi (114.2/km). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.8%

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and 0.2% other. There were 170 households, out of which 28.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.2% were

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living together, 5.9% had a male householder with no wife present, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.1% were non-families. 22.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.73. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 19.7% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 21.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.4 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $41,406, and the median income for a family was $79,500. The

per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita i ...

for the CDP was $24,197. None of the families and 2.5% of the population were living below the

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, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64.

References

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