Collegeville, Pennsylvania Map of Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Location of Collegeville in Montgomery County Collegeville, Pennsylvania is positioned in Pennsylvania Collegeville, Pennsylvania Location of Collegeville in Pennsylvania Collegeville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia on the Perkiomen Creek.
In 1869 the German Reformed Church established Ursinus College just outside Freeland, and the village changed its name to Collegeville. The Perkiomen Bridge and Perkiomen Bridge Hotel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Collegeville is positioned at 40 11 8 N 75 27 30 W (40.185554, -75.458273). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which, 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (3.70%) is water.
The borough of Collegeville is home to Ursinus College, as well as many small-town businesses.
The Providence Town Center, an open-air lifestyle center, is positioned outside of Collegeville.
Collegeville is the home of the Church House (headquarters) of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.
As of the 2010 census, the populace of the borough was 89.4% White, 4.0% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 3.8% Asian, and 1.9% were two or more competitions.
The ethnic makeup of the borough was 61.83% White, 31.19% African American, 0.10% Native American, 2.13% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 3.93% from other competitions, and 0.81% from two or more competitions.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 12.9% under the age of 18, 17.6% from 18 to 24, 42.9% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 5.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $77,499, and the median income for a family was $90,733.
About 1.0% of families and 2.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 2.1% of those age 65 or over.
Collegeville has a town/city manager form of government with a mayor and a seven-member borough council.
Collegeville is part of the Perkiomen Valley School District.
This borough is also home to Ursinus College.
SEPTA operates bus #93 along Collegeville's Main Street and Ridge Pike, running southeast to Norristown and northwest to Pottstown. The southern segment of highway PA 29 also serves Collegeville, running north to Allentown and south to Malvern.
Collegeville offers multiple attractions, including skydiving, a Rita's Water Ice, horse-back riding and their well-known car show.
Collegeville used to be home of the Collegeville Pitstop, which was a family fun center that featured mini-golf, go-karts, and a video arcade.
Borough of Collegeville - A Brief History, accessed April 9, 2011.
State College, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
"Montgomery County Election Results".
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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