As of the
census of 2000, there were 1,190 people, 495 households, and 330 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 551 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 97.56%
White, 1.01%
African American, 0.34%
Native American, 0.25%
Asian, 0.25% from
other races, and 0.59% from two or more races.
Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 0.59% of the population. There were 495 households, out of which 29.5% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 49.7% were
married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 28.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.4% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.85. In the borough the population was spread out, with 25.3% under the age of eighteen, 7.1% from eighteen to twenty-four, 27.6% from twenty-five to forty-four, 20.3% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 19.8% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-nine years. For every one hundred females there were 89.5 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 82.2 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $27,772, and the median income for a family was $33,688. Males had a median income of $26,607 compared with that of $18,424 for females. The
per capita income for the borough was $13,135. Roughly 15.9% of families and 22.1% of the population were living below the
poverty line, including 29.4% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 13.1% of those who were aged sixty-five or older. ==Business==