Pitcairn is a borough in
Allegheny CountyAllegheny County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,281,666. The county seat is Pittsburgh...
,
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
, fifteen miles (twenty-four kilometers) east of
PittsburghPittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the second largest city in the state. Its population was 334,563 at the 2000 census; by 2006, it was estimated to have fallen to 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is...
. Early in the 20th century, it was the site of large railroad yards and shops that employed nearly ten thousand men. In 1900, 2,601 people lived there. In 1910, 4,975 lived there, and in 1940, Pitcairn was home to 6,310 people. The population was 3,689 at the 2000 census.
Pitcairn operates its own power distribution system and municipally owned cable television system.
Pitcairn was the birthplace of bandleader
Ted WeemsWilfred Theodore Weems was a United States bandleader and musician.Born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, Weems learned to play the violin and trombone. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he and his brother Art organized a small dance band...
and of musical instrument maker Carl Thompson, as well as early NFL
footballAmerican football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
player
Harry RobbHarry Duplein Robb was an American football player and coach during the early 20th century in the pioneering days of football in America....
.
Pitcairn is a borough in
Allegheny CountyAllegheny County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,281,666. The county seat is Pittsburgh...
,
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
, fifteen miles (twenty-four kilometers) east of
PittsburghPittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the second largest city in the state. Its population was 334,563 at the 2000 census; by 2006, it was estimated to have fallen to 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is...
. Early in the 20th century, it was the site of large railroad yards and shops that employed nearly ten thousand men. In 1900, 2,601 people lived there. In 1910, 4,975 lived there, and in 1940, Pitcairn was home to 6,310 people. The population was 3,689 at the 2000 census.
Pitcairn operates its own power distribution system and municipally owned cable television system.
Pitcairn was the birthplace of bandleader
Ted WeemsWilfred Theodore Weems was a United States bandleader and musician.Born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, Weems learned to play the violin and trombone. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he and his brother Art organized a small dance band...
and of musical instrument maker Carl Thompson, as well as early NFL
footballAmerican football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
player
Harry RobbHarry Duplein Robb was an American football player and coach during the early 20th century in the pioneering days of football in America....
. In 1971 the first
Fox's Pizza DenFox's Pizza Den is a pizzeria chain based in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1971 by Jim Fox in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, and currently has more than 300 locations in 28 U.S. states, all franchise-owned....
was opened on Broadway Blvd. in Pitcairn. It remains open to this day.
Pitcairn Yard, which opened in 1892 and was for many decades a major switching yard of the
Pennsylvania RailroadThe Pennsylvania Railroad was an American railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
, later the Penn Central Railroad and Conrail, is now, since the 1990s, an
intermodal freight transportIntermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation , without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes. The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, reduces damages and...
yard for the
Norfolk Southern RailwayThe Norfolk Southern Railway is a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario, Canada...
, where containers are taken off trains and transferred to trucks for delivery, or from trucks to trains.
Geography
Pitcairn is located at (40.405768, -79.776434).
According to the
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, the borough has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.4 km
2), all of it land.
Demographics
As of the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
of 2000, there were 3,689 people, 1,675 households, and 911 families residing in the borough. The
population densityPopulation density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key term used in geography....
was 6,892.2 people per square mile (2,637.6/km
2). There were 1,901 housing units at an average density of 3,551.7/sq mi (1,359.2/km
2). The racial makeup of the borough was 98.10% White, 0.43% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.05% from
other racesRace and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...
, and 0.89% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.54% of the population.
There were 1,675 households out of which 24.7 percent had children under the age of eighteen living with them, 35.9 percent were
married couplesMarriage is a social union or legal contract between individuals that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged by a variety of ways, depending on the culture or demographic...
living together, 13.8 percent had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.6 percent were non-families. Of all households, 39.3 percent were made up of individuals, and 14.6 percent had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the borough the population was spread out with 22.2 percent under the age of eighteen, 9.8 percent from eighteen to twenty-four, 30.7 percent from twenty-five to forty-four, 21.3 percent from forty-five to sixty-four, and 16 percent who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-seven years. For every 100 females there were 90.9 males. For every 100 females age eighteen and over, there were 90.4 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $25,688, and the median income for a family was $34,226. Males had a median income of $30,637 versus $21,312 for females. The
per capita incomePer capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone. Per capita income is usually reported in units of currency per year...
for the borough was $14,785. About 7.2 percent of families and 12 percent of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.6 percent of those under age eighteen and 12.0 percent of those age sixty-five or over.
Education
K-12 students in Pitcairn are served by the award-winning
Gateway School DistrictThe Gateway School District is a public school district in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. The district employs more than 660 staff members to serve more than 4,300 students in Monroeville and Pitcairn.-History:...
, a public school district with a student population of 4,300.