Gratz, Pennsylvania
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Gratz is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 743 at the time of the 2020 census,<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021">Template:Cite web</ref> a decline from the figure of 765 in 2010.<ref name="Census 2010">Template:Cite web</ref>
It is part of the Harrisburg metropolitan area.
History
Gratz was named after the founder Simon Gratz.
Geography
Gratz is located in northeastern Dauphin County at Template:Coord.<ref name="GR1">Template:Cite web</ref>
It sits along the northern base of Short Mountain, a western extension of Bear Mountain, part of the Ridge and Valley Province of the Appalachian Mountains. Pennsylvania Route 25 passes through the borough, leading east Template:Convert to Interstate 81 and west Template:Convert to Millersburg on the Susquehanna River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of Template:Convert, all of it land.<ref name="Census 2010"/>
Demographics
Template:US Census population As of the census<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 676 people, 301 households, and 194 families residing in the borough.
The population density was Template:Convert. There were 331 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert.
The racial makeup of the borough was 99.56% White, 0.30% from other races, and 0.15% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.18% of the population.
There were 301 households, out of which 22.9% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 56.5% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.6% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.81.
In the borough the population was spread out, with 19.1% under the age of eighteen, 10.5% from eighteen to twenty-four, 23.8% from twenty-five to forty-four, 24.7% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 21.9% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-two years.
For every one hundred females, there were 103.6 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 96.1 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $32,917, and the median income for a family was $46,063. Males had a median income of $31,429 compared with that of $21,500 for females.
The per capita income for the borough was $16,837.
Roughly 8.6% of families and 14.3% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 14.9% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 18.8% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.
Notable person
- Carl Scheib, Major League Baseball pitcher and youngest player in American League history on his debut in 1943, aged sixteen
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