Girard, Pennsylvania Girard, Pennsylvania Location in Erie County and the state of Pennsylvania Location in Erie County and the state of Pennsylvania Girard is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The populace was 3,104 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Girard's history began with a petition to "Township Status" in 1832 by reassigning lands previously allocated to neighboring municipalities (Springfield, Fairview, and Elk Creek).
The name is with respect to Stephen Girard, a banking tycoon of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Stephen Girard, a resident of Philadelphia at that time, was chosen for a range of reasons.
Additionally, Girard officials had been lobbying with Stephen Girard's foundation, upon his death in 1831, to be the site of the bequeathed Girard College.
Girard is positioned in Erie County at 42 0 21 N 80 19 17 W (42.005954, -80.321481). It is bordered to the northwest by the borough of Lake City and on all other sides by Girard Township.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2), or 0.81%, is water. Elk Creek roughly follows the southwest border of the borough as it flows northwest to Lake Erie.
Route 20 passes through the borough as Main Street, dominant northeast 4 miles (6 km) to Fairview and 15 miles (24 km) to Erie, and southwest 13 miles (21 km) to Conneaut, Ohio.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,164 citizens , 1,226 homeholds, and 863 families residing in the borough.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 29.4% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $33,977, and the median income for a family was $38,936.
About 6.5% of families and 8.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 13.4% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Girard borough, Pennsylvania".
"Girard Chamber of Commerce; History of Girard".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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