Houserville is an unincorporated community and

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(CDP) in

Centre County Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,172. Its county seat is Bellefonte. Centre County comprises the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The lands ...

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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 1,814 at the 2010 census.

History

Two

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s, known as the Houserville and Tudek sites, are located between Houserville and State College. Once used in the production of stone tools, the sites may be 10,000 years old. Both are listed on the

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.Stevenson, Christopher M., and Conran Hay. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tudek Site.

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, 1980-10-10.

Geography

Houserville is located in southern Centre County at (40.828129, -77.828301), in the northern part of

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. It is bordered to the south by the community of Lemont, also in College Township. Houserville is northeast of the center of the borough of State College.

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and

U.S. Route 322 U.S. Route 322 (US 322) is a long, east–west United States Highway, traversing Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The road is a spur of U.S. Route 22 and one of the original highways from 1926. A portion of it at one time was concurrent with ...

merge just to the west of Houserville; the most direct access to the highways is from

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in Lemont. According to the

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, the Houserville CDP has a total area of , all land.

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forms the western edge of the CDP, flowing northward towards Bald Eagle Creek, a tributary of the

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Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 1,814 people, 734 households, and 508 families residing in the CDP. The

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was . There were 759 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.9%

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, 1.9% Black or African American, 1.8%

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, 0.5% from

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, and 2.9% from two or more races.

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of any race were 1.5% of the population. There were 734 households, out of which 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.1% were married couples living together, 2.2% had a male householder with no wife present, 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 23.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.99. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 22.4% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 30.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.3 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $57,976, and the median income for a family was $72,981. The

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for the CDP was $29,246. About 2.6% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the

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, including 7.3% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

References

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