Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

administration
The Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, listed on the NRHP since 1978
US state :	Pennsylvania
Administrative headquarters :	Lancaster
Foundation :	May 10, 1729
Made up from:	Chester County
Area code :	001 717
Demographics
Residents :	519,445 (2010)
Population density :	211.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2548 km²
Water surface :	90 km²
map

Website : www.co.lancaster.pa.us

The Lancaster County ( Pennsylvania Dutch : Lengeschder Kaundi ) is a county in the US state of Pennsylvania . At the 2010 census , the county had 519,445 residents and a population density of 211.3 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Lancaster .

Lancaster County is particularly well-known as the settlement of the Amish community of German descent . About five percent of the population speak Pennsylvania Dutch as the colloquial language .

geography

The county is located in southeastern Pennsylvania on the left bank of the Susquehanna River . This delimits the county to the southwest. To the south, the Mason-Dixon Line forms the border with Maryland .

Lancaster County covers an area of 2,548 square kilometers, 90 square kilometers of which is water.

It borders on the following neighboring counties:

Dauphin County	Lebanon County	Berks County
York County		Chester County
	Harford County, Maryland	Cecil County, Maryland

history

Lancaster County was formed on May 10, 1729 from former parts of Chester County . It was named after the English county of Lancashire at the suggestion of a settler who came from there.

Five locations in the county have National Historic Landmark status , including the Fulton Opera House, James Buchanan House, and Ephrata Cloister . 228 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of March 27, 2020).

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1790	36,081	-
1800	43,403	20.3%
1810	53,927	24.2%
1820	68,336	26.7%
1830	76,631	12.1%
1840	84.203	9.9%
1850	98,944	17.5%
1860	116.314	17.6%
1870	121,340	4.3%
1880	139,447	14.9%
1890	149,095	6.9%
1900	159.241	6.8%
1910	167.029	4.9%
1920	173,797	4.1%
1930	196,882	13.3%
1940	212.504	7.9%
1950	234.717	10.5%
1960	278.359	18.6%
1970	319,693	14.8%
1980	362,346	13.3%
1990	422.822	16.7%
2000	470,658	11.3%
2010	519.445	10.4%
before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Amish farms, typical Lancaster County countryside

Downtown Lancaster

Old Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge , listed on the NRHP since 1988

Soundersburg Covered Bridge , listed in the NRHP since 1980

According to the 2010 census , Lancaster County had 519,445 people in 186,301 households. The population density was 211.3 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 88.6 percent white, 3.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 1.9 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 8.6 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.59 people lived in each of the 186,301 households.

24.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.0 percent were 65 years or older. 51.1 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 55,504 USD . The per capita income was $ 25,813. 9.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Map of Lancaster County

City

Lancaster

Boroughs

Census-designated places (CDP)

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partially in Berks County}

Townships

Partnerships

There is a partnership with the district of Kaiserslautern .

literature

David Walbert: Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America. Oxford University Press, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-514844-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 78002415. Retrieved December 6, 2011

^ Lancaster County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.Retrieved February 22, 2011
^ National Association of Counties . Retrieved December 6, 2011
↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 170 .
↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Pennsylvania. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.
^ University of Virginia Library. Retrieved December 6, 2011
↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ United States Census 2010 . Retrieved December 6, 2011
↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 88000764 . Retrieved December 6, 2011
↑ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 80003537 . Retrieved December 6, 2011
↑ US Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Lancaster County ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 6, 2011 @1@ 2

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[1] Extract from the National Register of Historic Places - No. 78002415. Retrieved December 6, 2011