Gratz is a

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Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Dauphin County (; Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the populati ...

, United States. The population was 743 at the time of the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 765 in 2010. It is part of the

Harrisburg metropolitan area Harrisburg ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat, seat of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Dauphin County. With a population of 50, ...

History

Gratz was named after the founder Simon Gratz.

Geography

Gratz is located in northeastern Dauphin County at . It sits along the northern base of Short Mountain, a western extension of Bear Mountain, part of the

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of the

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Pennsylvania Route 25 Pennsylvania Route 25 (PA 25) is a state highway located in Dauphin and Schuylkill counties in central Pennsylvania. The western terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 209 (US 209) in Millersburg. The eastern terminus is at US 209 in Newto ...

passes through the borough, leading east to

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and west to Millersburg on the

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. According to the

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

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 676 people, 301 households, and 194 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 331 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 99.56%

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, 0.30% from other races, and 0.15% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 1.18% of the population. There were 301 households, out of which 22.9% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 56.5% were

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living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.6% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.81. In the borough the population was spread out, with 19.1% under the age of eighteen, 10.5% from eighteen to twenty-four, 23.8% from twenty-five to forty-four, 24.7% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 21.9% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-two years. For every one hundred females, there were 103.6 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 96.1 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $32,917, and the median income for a family was $46,063. Males had a median income of $31,429 compared with that of $21,500 for females. The

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for the borough was $16,837. Roughly 8.6% of families and 14.3% of the population were living below the

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, including 14.9% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 18.8% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

Notable person

* Carl Scheib, Major League Baseball pitcher and youngest player in

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history on his debut in 1943, aged sixteen

References

External links

* {{authority control Populated places established in 1805 Boroughs in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania 1805 establishments in Pennsylvania