About Washington Boro

Washington Boro is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,121 people and just one neighborhood, Washington Boro is the 673rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Washington Boro has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Washington Boro is a blue-collar town, with 37.2% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Washington Boro is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Washington Boro who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.43%), management occupations (9.96%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (5.94%).

Because of many things, Washington Boro is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Washington Boro really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Washington Boro perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Washington Boro is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Washington Boro, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.35% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Washington Boro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Washington Boro Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Washington Boro who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 20.26% of adults in Washington Boro have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Washington Boro in 2000 was $19,069, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $76,276 for a family of four.

The people who call Washington Boro home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Washington Boro is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Washington Boro include German, Irish, Italian, Swiss, English, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Washington Boro is English.