Wellsville is a

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in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 299 at the 2020 census. It is part of the York–Hanover metropolitan area.

History

Wellsville changed very little visually during the twentieth century; the borough's appearance has remained that of a nineteenth-century community, complete with brick sidewalks and Gothic Revival and Greek Revival houses.Barrett, Brenda. '' National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wellsville Historic District'. National Park Service, 1976-10-18. Accessed 2009-12-24. Because of its unusually high quality of preservation, nearly all of the community was placed on the

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in 1977 as the "Wellsville

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". Among the district's 48 contributing properties are an 1850s

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church, a small group of nineteenth-century commercial buildings, and the Wellsville House, an 1870s structure that has been used as a factory, museum, and restaurant.

Geography

Wellsville is located at (40.050335, -76.940533). According to the

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

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 279 people, 118 households, and 78 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 124 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 97.13%

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, 1.43%

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, 1.08% Asian, and 0.36% from two or more races. There were 118 households, out of which 34.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.5% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.85. In the borough the population was spread out, with 22.6% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 103.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.7 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $43,750, and the median income for a family was $51,667. Males had a median income of $33,281 versus $25,313 for females. The

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for the borough was $17,689. About 7.7% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the

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, including 12.2% of those under the age of eighteen and 9.8% of those 65 or over.

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* {{Authority control 1892 establishments in Pennsylvania Articles containing video clips Boroughs in York County, Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania Populated places established in 1737

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