New Paris, Pennsylvania

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article is about the Pennsylvania borough. For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation).

New Paris is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 214 at the 2000 census.

Contents

[edit] Geography

New Paris is located at 40°6′27″N, 78°38′40″W (40.107564, -78.644470)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.1 km² (0.1 mi²), all land.

[edit] Demographics

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 214 people, 79 households, and 62 families residing in the borough. The population density was 1,652.5/km² (4,158.3/mi²). There were 84 housing units at an average density of 648.7/km² (1,632.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough was 99.53% White and 0.47% Asian.

There were 79 households out of which 40.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% were married couples living together, 16.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.5% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.11.

In the borough the population was spread out with 32.2% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 86.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 70.6 males.

The median income for a household in the borough was $34,792, and the median income for a family was $34,375. Males had a median income of $28,750 versus $21,042 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $13,279. About 11.5% of families and 7.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 17.4% of those sixty five or over.

[edit] Gravity Hill

A road in New Paris, Bedford County, offers the Gravity Hill phenonomon in which cars appear to roll uphill unaided, and even water appears to roll uphill. A website offers a driving tour to explore this. There are claims that nobody knows for sure what the cause is, or that it could be a gravity warp in the earth, but a more widespread explanation is that it is an illusion found in a number of places such as the Electric Brae in Scotland and Magnetic Hill in Canada which also have a "gravity hill".

[edit] External links


Municipalities and Communities of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
(County Seat: Bedford)
Boroughs Bedford | Coaldale | Everett | Hopewell | Hyndman | Manns Choice | New Paris | Pleasantville | Rainsburg | St. Clairsville | Saxton | Schellsburg | Woodbury
Townships Bedford | Bloomfield | Broad Top | Colerain | Cumberland Valley | East Providence | East St. Clair | Harrison | Hopewell | Juniata | Kimmel | King | Liberty | Lincoln | Londonderry | Mann | Monroe | Napier | Pavia | Snake Spring | South Woodbury | Southampton | West Providence | West St. Clair | Woodbury
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../n/e/w/New_Paris%2C_Pennsylvania_7142.html"