Luzerne is a

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located north of Wilkes Barre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,703 at the time of the 2020 census.

History

The community was first settled in 1807. It was later incorporated as a borough in 1882. Like Luzerne County, the borough was named after Chevalier de la Luzerne, a French diplomat. In the early twentieth century, coal mining and manufacturing were the main industries in the community. The borough had coal mines, a foundry, drill factories, flour and feed mills, a canning factory, and a silk mill.

Geography

Luzerne is located at (41.283780, -75.892890). 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 2,952 people, 1,410 households, and 767 families living in the borough. The population density was . There were 1,520 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 98.92%

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, 0.34%

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, 0.07% Asian, 0.20% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 0.44% of the population. There were 1,410 households, out of which 20.2% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 38.7% were

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living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.6% were non-families. 40.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.0% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.87. In the borough the population was spread out, with 17.6% under the age of eighteen, 7.3% from eighteen to twenty-four, 28.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 22.5% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 23.9% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-three years. For every one hundred females there were 88.7 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 86.6 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $27,614, and the median income for a family was $37,730. Males had a median income of $27,054 compared with that of $21,250 for females. The

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for the borough was $16,217. Roughly 6.8% of families and 11.4% of the population were living below the

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, including 14.5% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 10.9% of those who were aged sixty-five or over.

Education

It is in the Wyoming Valley West School District.
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