Mercer, Pennsylvania Mercer, Pennsylvania Mercer County Courthouse (1909) Mercer County Courthouse (1909) Location of Mercer in Mercer County Location of Mercer in Mercer County Mercer, Pennsylvania is positioned in Pennsylvania Mercer, Pennsylvania - Mercer, Pennsylvania Location of Mercer inside Pennsylvania County Mercer Mercer is a borough in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Mercer County. Mercer is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The improve was titled after physician Brigadier General Hugh Mercer.
Brigadier General Mercer was a close friend to General Washington and became a rallying point for the Battle of Princeton.
Each February it holds Penn's Woods West Arts & Crafts Festival at the Mercer Area High School as well as Victorian Days in the summer.
The Mercer County Court House and Christiana Lindsey House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the time of his inauguration in Mercer in January 2002, Chris Portman was one of the youngest mayors in the history of the USA.
Mercer is positioned at 41 13 35 N 80 14 15 W (41.226347, -80.237436). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2), all land.
The United States postal service in Mercer contains a mural, Clearing the Land, painted in 1940 by Lorin Thompson.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 22.2% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $29,795, and the median income for a family was $46,979.
About 6.0% of families and 9.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 8.8% of those under age 18 and 8.5% of those age 65 or over.
"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".
Municipalities and communities of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States
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