Homer City, PA Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Median Age: 43.4 years

Median Rent: Median gross rent in 2017: $642.

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 15.3%

Ancestries: Ancestries: Italian (21.8%), German (19.6%), American (9.8%), Irish (8.2%), Polish (7.1%), Slovak (5.8%).

Land Area: 0.56 square miles.

Zip Codes: 15748

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $47,127 (it was $30,815 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $26,979 (it was $16,293 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $112,984 (it was $64,200 in 2000) Homer City:$112,984PA:$181,200

Races:
      White alone - 1,673 - 98.0%
      Two or more races - 16 - 0.9%
      Black alone - 6 - 0.4%
      Hispanic - 5 - 0.3%
      American Indian alone - 4 - 0.2%
      Asian alone - 3 - 0.2%

A novella called The Roving Red Rangers or Laura Lamar of the Susquehanna by Charles Asbury Robinson, was set in the Homer City area. It was published by the author in 1902. It has often been erroneously understood as a work of non-fiction and given rise to mistaken notions about local history, especially when the name "Laura Lamar" derived from a character in this novella was suggested and adopted as the name of the local school district in the 1952.

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1265 WAYNE AVE STE 207 4.1 miles

1265 WAYNE AVE STE 207
INDIANA, PA 15701
Categories: INDIANA PA

875 HOSPITAL RD 4.5 miles

875 HOSPITAL RD
INDIANA, PA 15701
Categories: INDIANA PA

2125 OAKLAND AVE 4.6 miles

2125 OAKLAND AVE
INDIANA, PA 15701
Categories: INDIANA PA

2128 OAKLAND AVE 4.6 miles

2128 OAKLAND AVE
INDIANA, PA 15701
Categories: INDIANA PA

1916 OAKLAND AVE 4.8 miles

1916 OAKLAND AVE
INDIANA, PA 15701
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835 HOSPITAL RD Box 788 5.9 miles

835 HOSPITAL RD Box 788
INDIANA, PA 15701
Categories: INDIANA PA

865 MARION RD 6.8 miles

865 MARION RD
INDIANA, PA 15701
Categories: INDIANA PA

31 ORCHARD DR 9.5 miles

31 ORCHARD DR
ARMAGH, PA 15920
Categories: ARMAGH PA

9525 ROUTE 422 HWY W PO BOX 338 11.4 miles

9525 ROUTE 422 HWY W PO BOX 338
SHELOCTA, PA 15774
Categories: SHELOCTA PA

W 2ND AVE 19.5 miles

W 2ND AVE
LATROBE, PA 15650
Categories: LATROBE PA

132 WALNUT ST STE 2 19.6 miles

132 WALNUT ST STE 2
JOHNSTOWN, PA 15901
Categories: JOHNSTOWN PA

984 CHERRY LANE RD 19.6 miles

984 CHERRY LANE RD
APOLLO, PA 15613
Categories: APOLLO PA

3876 STATE ROUTE 30 22.0 miles

3876 STATE ROUTE 30
LATROBE, PA 15650
Categories: LATROBE PA

5927 STATE ROUTE 981 STE 6 22.0 miles

5927 STATE ROUTE 981 STE 6
LATROBE, PA 15650
Categories: LATROBE PA

1104 W HIGH ST 22.7 miles

1104 W HIGH ST
EBENSBURG, PA 15931
Categories: EBENSBURG PA

143 HARTMAN RD STE 10 23.8 miles

143 HARTMAN RD STE 10
GREENSBURG, PA 15601
Categories: GREENSBURG PA

397 Hyde Park Road, Allegheny Town Square, Suite 1 24.0 miles

397 Hyde Park Road, Allegheny Town Square, Suite 1
Leechburg, PA 15656
Categories: Leechburg PA

421 ROUTE 22 24.1 miles

421 ROUTE 22
DELMONT, PA 15626
Categories: DELMONT PA

1221 SCALP AVE 24.1 miles

1221 SCALP AVE
JOHNSTOWN, PA 15904
Categories: JOHNSTOWN PA

5240 ROUTE 30, STE B, 24.6 miles

5240 ROUTE 30, STE B,
GREENSBURG, PA 15601
Categories: GREENSBURG PA

1450 SCALP AVE STE 106 24.6 miles

1450 SCALP AVE STE 106
JOHNSTOWN, PA 15904
Categories: JOHNSTOWN PA

1450 SCALP AVE 24.6 miles

1450 SCALP AVE
JOHNSTOWN, PA 15904
Categories: JOHNSTOWN PA

160 JARI DR STE 110 24.7 miles

160 JARI DR STE 110
JOHNSTOWN, PA 15904
Categories: JOHNSTOWN PA

1513 SCALP AVE 24.7 miles

1513 SCALP AVE
JOHNSTOWN, PA 15904
Categories: JOHNSTOWN PA

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  1. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

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Local Area Info: Homer City, Pennsylvania

Homer City is a borough in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,707 at the 2010 census. Homer City is located in the Indiana metro area. The community was named for the famous Greek poet Homer by founder William Wilson in 1854. It was incorporated as a borough in 1872.

The two treaties of Fort Stanwix (of 1768 and, after American independence, of 1784) secured the westward expansion of Pennsylvania into the region where the Borough of Homer City is now located, on land inhabited by the six Indian nations. With white settlement these new territories were initially organized as part of existing counties in eastern and central Pennsylvania. White settlers were few in the eighteenth century and encountering Indians still very much a part of daily life. Any degree of stability and safety came only after the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794). Indiana County was carved out of Westmoreland and Lycoming counties in 1803 and divided into three townships: Wheatfield, Armstrong, and Mahoning. The confluence of Two Lick and Yellow creeks (present-day Homer City) was a contender for the seat of government for the new county, but instead the "extraordinary overtures" of George Clymer, a local landowners and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, saw the county seat situated instead in what would become the Borough of Indiana. Center Township - the unincorporated area surrounding present-day Homer City - was created from a portion of Armstrong Township in 1807, its landscape dotted with larger and smaller family homesteads (farms) and an increasing number of mills and trading posts.

Parts of Center Township were settled early on by Scots-Irish Presbyterians as in other parts of Indiana County, but Methodist families of English and Welsh descent came to dominate the Homer City area, and they remained prominent in its civic and commercial life well into the twentieth century. William Wilson laid out the village of Homer in 1854 naming it after the Classical Greek poet. For several years, however, its post office was designated Phillips Mill (or Mills on some maps), a name derived from that of early settler Armour Phillips, Sr. When the village became a borough in 1872 - with the consolidation and annexation of neighboring parcels - more and more it was referred to as Homer City.

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Median Age: 43.4 years

Median Rent: Median gross rent in 2017: $642.

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 15.3%

Ancestries: Ancestries: Italian (21.8%), German (19.6%), American (9.8%), Irish (8.2%), Polish (7.1%), Slovak (5.8%).

Land Area: 0.56 square miles.

Zip Codes: 15748

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $47,127 (it was $30,815 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $26,979 (it was $16,293 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $112,984 (it was $64,200 in 2000) Homer City:$112,984PA:$181,200

Races:
      White alone - 1,673 - 98.0%
      Two or more races - 16 - 0.9%
      Black alone - 6 - 0.4%
      Hispanic - 5 - 0.3%
      American Indian alone - 4 - 0.2%
      Asian alone - 3 - 0.2%

A novella called The Roving Red Rangers or Laura Lamar of the Susquehanna by Charles Asbury Robinson, was set in the Homer City area. It was published by the author in 1902. It has often been erroneously understood as a work of non-fiction and given rise to mistaken notions about local history, especially when the name "Laura Lamar" derived from a character in this novella was suggested and adopted as the name of the local school district in the 1952.