borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English language, English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
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that is located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 974 at the time of the 2010 census.
History
Trumbauersville was incorporated in 1908 and celebrated its
centennial
A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century.
Notable events
Notable centennial events at a national or world-level include:
* Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
on May 2, 2008.
Geography
Trumbauersville is located at (40.411305, -75.381577).
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the borough has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the 2010 census, the borough was 95.4% White, 0.6% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 0.6% were two or more races. 3.1% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 1,059 people, 374 households, and 305 families residing in the borough.
The population density was . There were 382 housing units at an average density of .
The racial makeup of the borough was 97.92%
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...
, 0.57%
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, 0.66% Asian, 0.47% from other races, and 0.38% from two or more races.
Hispanic
The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, Hispanic and Latino Americans, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an Ethnici ...
or Latino of any race were 0.85% of the population.
There were 666 households, out of which 39.8% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 69.0% were
married couples
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...
living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.4% were non-families. 13.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.5% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.07.
Within the borough, the population was spread out, with 26.3% of residents who were under the age of eighteen, 6.6% who were aged eighteen to twenty-four, 32.4% who were aged twenty-five to forty-four, 23.2% who were aged forty-five to sixty-four, and 11.4% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-seven years.
For every one hundred females, there were 96.8 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 93.1 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $52,250, and the median income for a family was $60,000. Males had a median income of $38,125 compared with that of $30,441 for females.
The
per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.
In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
for the borough was $20,778.
Approximately 1.9% of families and 5.6% of the population were living below the
poverty line
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, including 5.9% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 4.9% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.
Climate
According to the
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...
system, Trumbauersville has a Hot-summer,
Humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
(''Dfa''). ''Dfa'' climates are characterized by at least one month having an average mean temperature ≤ , at least four months with an average mean temperature ≥ , at least one month with an average mean temperature ≥ and no significant precipitation difference between seasons. Although most summer days are slightly humid in Trumbauersville, episodes of heat and high humidity can occur with
heat index
The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity, in shade (shadow), shaded areas, to posit a human-perceived equivalent temperature, as how hot it would feel if the humidity were some other value in the Shade (s ...
values > .
Since 1981, the highest air temperature was on July 22, 2011, and the highest daily average mean
dew point
The dew point is the temperature the air needs to be cooled to (at constant pressure) in order to produce a relative humidity of 100%. This temperature depends on the pressure and water content of the air. When the air at a temperature above the ...
was on August 1, 2006. The average wettest month is July, which corresponds with the annual peak in
thunderstorm
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activity. Since 1981, the wettest calendar day was on September 30, 2010. During the winter months, the average annual extreme minimum air temperature is .
Since 1981, the coldest air temperature was on January 21, 1994. Episodes of extreme cold and wind can occur, with
wind chill
Wind chill (popularly wind chill factor) is the sensation of cold produced by the wind for a given ambient air temperature on exposed skin as the air motion accelerates the rate of heat transfer from the body to the surrounding atmosphere. Its va ...
values < . The average annual snowfall (Nov-Apr) is between and .
Ice storm
An ice storm, also known as a glaze event or a silver storm, is a type of winter storm characterized by freezing rain. The National Weather Service, U.S. National Weather Service defines an ice storm as a storm which results in the accumulatio ...
s and large snowstorms depositing ≥ of snow occur once every few years, particularly during nor’easters from December through February.
Transportation
As of 2018 there were of public roads in Trumbauersville, of which were maintained by the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) oversees transportation issues in the Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The administrator of PennDOT is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, Michael B. Carroll. PennDOT ...
(PennDOT) and were maintained by the borough.
No numbered highways serve Trumbauersville directly. The main thoroughfares in the borough are Broad Street, which follows a southwest-northeast alignment, and Main Street, which follows a northwest-southeast route. These two roads intersect near the center of town.
Oak
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisp ...
(''104'') with a dominant vegetation form of Eastern
Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from Flowering plant, angiosperm trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal ecosystem, boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostl ...
Forest (''25''). The
plant hardiness zone
A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants. In some systems other statistics are included in the calculations. The original and most widely ...
is 6b with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of . The spring bloom typically begins by April 15 and fall color usually peaks by October 25.
Education
Quakertown Community School District
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Boston Braves
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