As of the
census of 2000, there were one thousand twenty-three people, four hundred and seventeen households and two hundred and eighty-eight families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were four hundred and fifty-nine housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 99.41%
White, 0.10%
Asian, 0.10% from
other races, and 0.39% from two or more races.
Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 0.29% of the population. There were four hundred and seventeen households, out of which 25.2% had children under the age of eighteen living with them, 48.9% were
married couples living together, 16.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.9% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.8% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.97. In the borough the population was spread out, with 19.5% under the age of eighteen, 7.9% from eighteen to twenty-four, 27.9% from twenty-five to forty-four, 23.1% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 21.7% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-two years. For every one hundred females there were 92.7 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 85.2 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $33,125, and the median income for a family was $38,906. Males had a median income of $30,430 compared to that of $21,563 for females. The
per capita income for the borough was $15,902. Roughly 8.0% of families and 9.3% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 18.5% of those under age eighteen and 6.0% of those aged sixty-five or over. The borough's population peaked in 1930 (with 2,768 residents). The population of Sugar Notch has been in constant decline since that decade. The population had fallen to nine hundred and sixty-four by 2017. ==Education==