Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Elizabethtown Location of Elizabethtown in Lancaster County and Dauphin County Location of Elizabethtown in Lancaster County and Dauphin County Elizabethtown is positioned in Pennsylvania Elizabethtown - Elizabethtown Location of Elizabethtown in Pennsylvania Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Betzischteddel) is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Harrisburg.
There was a slight increase in the next decade, with 1,970 citizens living in Elizabethtown in 1910.
As of the 2000 census, the populace of the borough was 11,887. Elizabethtown is generally referred to in south-central Pennsylvania as "E-Town." This nickname is also used for the small-town college and high school.
Elizabethtown became a borough in 1827, and a barns was assembled through the region in the 1830s.
Elizabethtown College was established in 1899, and the Masonic Homes (now the Masonic Village) followed in 1910.
After World War II, Elizabethtown interval rapidly, more than doubling its populace between 1950 and 2000.
Elizabethtown Borough Council has six members representing three voting wards.
They are responsible for setting policy in every aspect of the Borough, including budgeting, enhance works, zoning, and ordinances.
The mayor casts votes at Borough Council meetings only if there is a tie.
Elizabethtown is positioned at 40 9 12 N 76 36 2 W (40.153207, -76.600431). The borough has a total region of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), of which, 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2) of it is territory and 0.38% is water.
Elizabethtown is home to Continental Press, White Oak Mills (an animal feed plant), Elizabethtown College, the Masonic Village, a large Mars Chocolate North America(a division of Mars, Incorporated) plant and various lesser businesses..
As of the census of 2000, there were 11,887 citizens , 4,271 homeholds, and 2,703 families residing in the borough.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 19.3% under the age of 18, 18.8% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 18.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $42,752, and the median income for a family was $52,214.
About 3.3% of families and 5.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 6.7% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over.
Public schools in Elizabethtown Borough are part of the Elizabethtown Area School District, though there are areas outside the borough that have Elizabethtown mailing addresses that are in neighboring school districts.
Elizabethtown College, a private liberal arts institution, provides higher education.
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania borough hall Elizabethtown Public Library , member of the Library System of Lancaster County The Elizabethtown Advocate Elizabethtown is served by an Amtrak station, where all Keystone Service and Pennsylvanian trains stop.
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"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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