Weissport East is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Franklin Township in

Carbon County, Pennsylvania Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. The county is part of the Northeast region of the commonwealth. The county borders Lehigh and Northampton counties in the state ...

. It is part of

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. The population was 1,624 at the time of the 2010 census, down from 1,936 at the 2000 census.

Geography

Weissport East is located in southern Carbon County at (40.833374, -75.690075). It is bordered to the west by the borough of Weissport, to the southwest by the

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, and to the south by

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, across which is the borough of Parryville. According to the

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, Weissport East has a total area of , all of it land. U.S. Route 209 passes through the community, leading west into Weissport and then Lehighton, and intersects with

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, the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just east of Weissport East. I-476 leads north to the

Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre ( , alternatively or ) is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. ...

and

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area and south to the

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–

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area in the

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Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 1,936 people, 804 households, and 567 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 860 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.07%

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, 0.05%

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, 0.26% Native American, 0.21% Asian, and 0.41% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 0.10% of the population. There were 804 households, out of which 24.0% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 59.0% were

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living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% were non-families. 23.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.82. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 19.1% under the age of eighteen, 7.0% from eighteen to twenty-four, 28.6% from twenty-five to forty-four, 27.3% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 18.1% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-two years. For every one hundred females, there were 97.3 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 94.2 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $33,454, and the median income for a family was $48,558. Males had a median income of $36,356 compared with that of $21,778 for females. The

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for the CDP was $19,432. Roughly 1.2% of families and 3.8% of the population were living below the

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, including 5.0% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 11.0% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

References

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