Laflin, Pennsylvania | |
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Borough | |
Coordinates: 41°17′25″N75°47′34″W / 41.29028°N 75.79278°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Luzerne |
Region | Greater Pittston |
Incorporated | 1889 |
Government | |
• Type | Borough Council |
• Mayor | William C. Kennedy |
Area | |
• Total | 1.31 sq mi (3.40 km2) |
• Land | 1.31 sq mi (3.40 km2) |
• Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,451 |
• Density | 1,106.79/sq mi (427.28/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Zip code | 18702 |
Area code | 570 |
FIPS code | 42-40848 |
Website | www |
Laflin is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,443 at the time of the 2020 census. [3]
Laflin was incorporated as a borough in 1889. It was likely named for one of the owners of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company. [4] The following year, in 1890, the population of the newly formed borough was just over two hundred. Coal mining led to a population boom in the region.
Laflin witnessed its greatest increase between 1970 and 1980, when the number of residents grew by over 313% (or from 399 people to 1,650 people).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.5 km2), all of it land.
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1890 | 231 | — | |
1900 | 254 | 10.0% | |
1910 | 528 | 107.9% | |
1920 | 473 | −10.4% | |
1930 | 421 | −11.0% | |
1940 | 386 | −8.3% | |
1950 | 258 | −33.2% | |
1960 | 235 | −8.9% | |
1970 | 399 | 69.8% | |
1980 | 1,650 | 313.5% | |
1990 | 1,498 | −9.2% | |
2000 | 1,502 | 0.3% | |
2010 | 1,487 | −1.0% | |
2020 | 1,443 | −3.0% | |
2021 (est.) | 1,446 | [3] | 0.2% |
Sources: [5] [6] [7] [2] |
As of the census [6] of 2000, there were 1,502 people, 612 households, and 452 families residing in the borough.
The population density was 1,111.0 inhabitants per square mile (429.0/km2). There were 632 housing units at an average density of 467.5 per square mile (180.5/km2).
The racial makeup of the borough was 95.61% White, 0.13% African American, 3.66% Asian, 0.13% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.60% of the population.
There were 612 households, out of which 26.6% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 62.9% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% were non-families. 24.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the borough the population was spread out, with 20.5% under the age of eighteen, 4.5% from eighteen to twenty-four, 24.8% from twenty-five to forty-four, 33.4% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 16.8% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-five years.
For every one hundred females there were 88.9 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 86.9 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $55,658, and the median income for a family was $69,226. Males had a median income of $50,433 compared with that of $29,375 for females.
The per capita income for the borough was $29,581.
Roughly 1.5% of families and 2.5% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 4.0% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 3.9% of those who were aged sixty-five or over.
The government consists of a mayor and a five-member borough council. The mayor is William C Kennedy, and members of the Borough Council include: Carl Yastremski, (president), Anthony D'Eliseo, (vice-president), Paul Benderavich, Kyle Costello, and Marc Malvizzi.[ citation needed ]
Major highways include Interstate 81 and Route 315.
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