Speers is a

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that is located in

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, United States. The population was 1,087 at the time of the 2020 census.

Geography

According to the

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, the Borough of Speers has a total area of , of which is land and (11.01%) is water.

Surrounding and adjacent neighborhoods

Speers has four land borders: with Dunlevy to the southeast, Long Branch to the south-southeast,

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from the south to the west, and

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to the northwest. Across the Monongahela River, Speers runs adjacent with Rostraver in Westmoreland County and Belle Vernon in Fayette County, the former connected by the

Belle Vernon Bridge The Belle Vernon Bridge, also called the Speers Bridge or Speers/Belle Vernon Bridge, carries Interstate 70 across the Monongahela River from Speers east to Rostraver Township in the state of Pennsylvania. Around 1951 it replaced an earlier low-l ...

over

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Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 1,241 people, 538 households, and 381 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 561 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 97.66%

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, 0.73%

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, 1.29% Asian, and 0.32% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population. There were 538 households, out of which 23.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.0% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.80. Within the borough, the population was spread out, with 17.7% of residents who were under the age of eighteen, 6.0% who were aged eighteen to twenty-four, 22.2% who were aged twenty-five to forty-four, 27.4% who were aged forty-five to sixty-four, and 26.7% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-seven years. For every one hundred females, there were 91.2 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 89.1 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $40,500, and the median income for a family was $48,173. Males had a median income of $37,188 compared with that of $30,536 for females. The

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for the borough was $20,446. Approximately 5.0% of families and 7.7% of the population were living below the

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, including 17.3% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 6.6% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

References

;Notes {{authority control Boroughs in Washington County, Pennsylvania Populated places established in 1860 Pittsburgh metropolitan area Pennsylvania populated places on the Monongahela River 1860 establishments in Pennsylvania