Population: 48,950
Land area: 8.1 square miles
Zip codes: 17101..17113, 17120..17130, 17177, 17140. Median resident age: 33.0 years Median household income: $29,183 Median house value: $132,000
Races in Harrisburg:
- Black (54.8%)
- White Non-Hispanic (28.6%)
- Hispanic (11.7%)
- Other race (6.5%)
- Two or more races (3.6%)
- Vietnamese (1.9%)
- American Indian (1.1%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: German (9.6%), Irish (4.6%), Italian (3.7%), United States (3.5%), English (2.2%), Subsaharan African (2.1%).
For population 25 years and over in Harrisburg
- High school or higher: 72.4%
- Bachelor's degree or higher: 14.3%
- Graduate or professional degree: 5.7%
- Unemployed: 9.8%
- Mean travel time to work: 19.2 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Harrisburg city
- Never married: 44.3%
- Now married: 31.2%
- Separated: 4.7%
- Widowed: 7.4%
- Divorced: 12.4%
5.9% Foreign born (2.5% Asia, 2.0% Latin America, 0.9% Africa).
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Lancaster, PA (42.3 miles, pop. 56,348).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Baltimore, MD (68.9 miles, pop. 651,154).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Philadelphia, PA (120.4 miles, pop. 1,517,550).
Nearest cities: Penbrook, PA (2.0 miles),
Wormleysburg, PA (2.2 miles),
Lemoyne, PA (2.3 miles),
New Cumberland, PA (2.8 miles),
Paxtang, PA (2.9 miles),
Progress, PA (3.0 miles),
Lower Allen, PA (3.4 miles),
Camp Hill, PA (4.0 miles).
Single-family new house construction building permits:
- 1996: 8 buildings, average cost: $66,500
- 1997: 2 buildings, average cost: $66,500
- 1998: 3 buildings, average cost: $33,500
- 1999: 5 buildings, average cost: $78,600
- 2000: 33 buildings, average cost: $63,500
- 2001: 13 buildings, average cost: $75,900
- 2002: 25 buildings, average cost: $64,000
- 2003: 38 buildings, average cost: $68,500
Area code: 717
Industries providing employment: Educational,health and social services (18.0%), Public administration (15.3%), Retail trade (10.4%).
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