Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Delaware County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Swarthmore highlighted.svg Location in Delaware County and the state of Pennsylvania.
Location of Pennsylvania in the United States Swarthmore (pronounced / sw .m r/ swahth-mor locally, or / sw r .m r/ swawrth-mor) is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Swarthmore was originally titled "Westdale" with respect to noted painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early inhabitants of the town.
The name was changed to "Swarthmore" after the establishment of Swarthmore College.
The borough was originally part of Springfield Township, and interval up around Swarthmore College, which was established in 1864.
The advent of passenger rail service from Philadelphia in the 1880s greatly enhanced the desirability of the borough as a commuter suburb, and the borough was incorporated in 1893.
Swarthmore is positioned in east-central Delaware County at 39 54 6 N 75 20 49 W (39.901788, -75.347083). It is bordered to the north, east, and southwest by Springfield Township, to the southeast by Ridley Township, and to the west by Nether Providence Township.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Swarthmore borough has a total region of 1.40 square miles (3.63 km2), all of it land. In the borough the populace was spread out, with 20.5% under the age of 18, 24.4% from 18 to 24, 18.9% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $138,653, and the median income for a family was $187,874.
Swarthmore lies inside the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District.
According to Pennsylvania state policy, Swarthmore is considered too small a town to have its own secondary schools.
Hence, in 1984 Swarthmore High School consolidated with adjoining Nether Providence High School to form Strath Haven High School.
The borough is home to Swarthmore College, on whose ground is the Benjamin West House (the home of Benjamin West), a painter who lived in what is presently known as Swarthmore, but was Springfield at the time.
Scott Arboretum is positioned on the ground of Swarthmore College.
The Swarthmore Public Library is at 121 Park Avenue in the center of the borough.
"2013 Un-Official Municipal Election Results for Swarthmore Borough".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Swarthmore borough, Pennsylvania".
"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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