Georgetown, Floyd County, Indiana
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Georgetown is a town in Floyd County
Floyd County, Indiana
Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 74,578. The county seat is New Albany. Floyd County is the county with the second smallest land area in the entire state...

, Indiana
Indiana
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, United States
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. The population was 2,876 at the 2010 census.

Notable people

  • R. Carlyle Buley
    R. Carlyle Buley
    Roscoe Carlyle Buley was born in Georgetown, Indiana, on July 8, 1893. The son of David M. Buley -- a Hoosier school teacher -- and Nora Buley, he graduated Vincennes High School in 1910. He received his B.A. from Indiana University in 1914 and his M.A. from the same institution in 1916.During...

    , who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History
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     in 1951, was born in Georgetown on July 8, 1893
  • Sherman Minton
    Sherman Minton
    Sherman "Shay" Minton was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the most educated justice during his time on the Supreme Court, having attended Indiana University, Yale and the Sorbonne...

    , United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Georgetown on October 20, 1890.

Geography

Georgetown is located at 38°18′0"N 85°58′15"W (38.300068, -85.970704).

According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²), of which, 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square mile (0.1035995244 km²) of it (1.11%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 2,227 people, 794 households, and 655 families residing in the town. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,242.4 people per square mile (480.4/km²). There were 830 housing units at an average density of 463.1/sq mi (179.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.61% White, 0.22% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.22% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races
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, and 0.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49% of the population.

There were 794 households out of which 44.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.4% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 10.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.4% were non-families. 14.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.09.

In the town the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 34.0% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 6.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 101.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.0 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $48,795, and the median income for a family was $51,667. Males had a median income of $36,204 versus $25,987 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the town was $18,645. About 2.7% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.2% of those under age 18 and 2.0% of those age 65 or over.
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