Cassville is a

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Huntingdon County Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

, United States. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 138.

Geography

Cassville is located in south-central Huntingdon County at an elevation of . It sits at the western base of

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, which rises above the borough. Shirley Knob rises above the borough to the southwest. Pennsylvania Route 829 passes through the center of Cassville, leading north to

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, near Mill Creek and south over Sideling Hill to

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. According to the

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, Cassville has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 152 people, 65 households, and 46 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 69 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 100.00%

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. There were 65 households, out of which 24.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% were

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living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.2% were non-families. 29.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.87. In the borough the population was spread out, with 20.4% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 25.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 90.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $30,625, and the median income for a family was $33,500. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $18,333 for females. The

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for the borough was $13,628. About 11.4% of families and 9.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 12.5% of those sixty five or over.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1797 Boroughs in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania