Stockdale is a

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that is located in

Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 209,349. Its county seat is Washington. Washington County is part of the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is ...

, United States. The population was 424 at the time of the 2020 census.

Geography

Stockdale is located at (40.083348, -79.850456). According to the

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, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and (12.90%) is water.

Surrounding neighborhoods

Stockdale's only land border is with Allenport. Across the Monongahela River to the south in Fayette County, Stockdale runs adjacent with Jefferson Township.

Demographics

At the time of the 2000 census there were 555 people, 251 households, and 167 families living in the borough. The population density was . There were 267 housing units at an average density of . The

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of the borough was 98.74% White, 0.72% African American, 0.18% Asian, and 0.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.18%. Of the 251 households that were documented during the federal census, 22.7% had children under the age of eighteen living with them, 51.4% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families. 29.5% of households were one-person households and 13.1% were one-person households with residents who were aged sixty-five or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.72. The age distribution was 16.9% of residents who were under the age of eighteen, 7.4% who were aged eighteen to twenty-four, 27.4% who were aged twenty-five to forty-four, 26.7% who were aged forty-five to sixty-four, and 21.6% who were aged sixty-five or older. The median age was forty-four years. For every one hundred females, there were 94.7 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 96.2 males. The median household income was $30,000 and the median family income was $33,750. Males had a median income of $30,781 compared with that of $25,000 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $19,470. Approximately 13.6% of families and 14.1% of the population were living below the

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, including 16.7% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 12.5% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

References

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