Lanesboro - Susquehanna county

Population 588

Lanesboro, Pennsylvania

Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in Susquehanna county, is 38 miles N of Scranton, Pennsylvania and 111 miles NW of Newark, New Jersey. About 588 people people live in Lanesboro.

The People and Families of Lanesboro

In Lanesboro, about 51% of adults are married. Single people feel welcome in Lanesboro, and many people make their homes without family or roommates living with them. Singles, rather than married couples, seem the order of the day in the town.

Kinder? Gentler? Well at least we can say that women form a particularly large portion of the population in Lanesboro.

Wealth and Education

In 2000, Lanesboro had a median family income of $34,844. As it happens, more people than usual in Lanesboro are able to work from their homes.

Lanesboro Housing

Of the houses, apartments, etc. in Lanesboro, about 60% are lived in by their owners, not renters. The average year in which most residences in the town were built is earlier than in most places. Renting one (or even zero) bedroom apartments is pretty common in Lanesboro. If you're looking for affordable rentals, the town is one place with an advantage over most places in Pennsylvania.

Commuting

In Lanesboro, 90% of commuters drive to work.

Lanesboro Population (2000)

Category	Count	Percent
Total Population	588	100%
Male	262	44.6%
Female	326	55.4%
Under 18	151	25.7%
18+	437	74.3%
65+	119	20.2%
Median Age	41.6
Average Family Size	3.04
White	575	97.8%
African-American	0	0%
Asian	9	1.5%
American Indian & Alaskan	1	0.2%
Other	0	0%
Mixed Race	2	0.3%
Hispanic (included in categories above)	4	0.7%
Median Family Income (1999)	$34,844
Population In Poverty	122	19.5%

Lanesboro Ancestry

Ancestry	Percent
US/American	17.2%
English	15.8%
German	14.4%
Irish	13%
Italian	12.5%
French (except Basque)	4.2%
Polish	4.2%
Other (often includes Hispanic and African American)	2.6%
Welsh	2.6%
Dutch	2.1%
Danish	1.9%
European	1.4%
Russian	1.4%
Croatian	1.4%
Swedish	1.4%
Hungarian	0.9%
British	0.9%
Serbian	0.7%
Slovak	0.5%
Scotch-Irish	0.5%
Austrian	0.5%
Scottish	0.2%