Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

== Demographics ==
{{US Census population
|1850= 830
|1860= 3349
|1870= 6986
|1880= 5845
|1890= 7358
|1900= 7210
|1910= 7772
|1920= 8557
|1930= 9668
|1940= 10810
|1950= 11381
|1960= 11748
|1970= 11427
|1980= 9617
|1990= 9230
|2000= 9149
|2010= 9772
|2020= 8108
|footnote=Sources:<ref name="Census QuickFacts">{{cite web|title=State and County QuickFacts: Lock Haven (city), Pennsylvania|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42/4244128.html|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|date=March 31, 2015|access-date=April 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222085206/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42/4244128.html|archive-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name="USDecennialCensus">{{cite web|title=Census of Population and Housing|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:42&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=Oct 12, 2022}}</ref>
}}

As of the [[census]] of 2020, there were 8,108&nbsp;people living in the city. The average household size during the years 2018–22 was 2.19. The rate of home ownership was 33&nbsp;percent, and the median value of owner-occupied units was about $133,000. The [[population density]] in 2020 was 3,248&nbsp;people per square mile (8,410 per km<sup>2</sup>). The reported racial makeup of the city was about 91&nbsp;percent White and about 4&nbsp;percent African-American, with other categories totaling about 5&nbsp;percent. People of Hispanic or Latino origin accounted for about 3&nbsp;percent of the residents. Between 2018 and 2022, about 3&nbsp;percent of the city's residents were foreign-born, and about 3&nbsp;percent of the population over the age of 5 spoke a language other than English at home. In 2020, the city's population included about 5&nbsp;percent under the age of 18 and about 15&nbsp;percent who were 65 years of age or older. Females accounted for 52&nbsp;percent of the total population.<ref name="Census QuickFacts"/> 

Between 2018 and 2022, of the people who were older than 25, 89&nbsp;percent had graduated from high school, and 23&nbsp;percent had at least a bachelor's degree. In 2017, 126 businesses with employees operated in Lock Haven. The mean travel time to work for employees who were at least 16 years old was 21&nbsp;minutes. The median income for a household in the city during 2018–22 was about $43,000 compared to about $75,000 for the entire United States. The [[per capita income]] for the city was about $24,000, and about 25&nbsp;percent of Lock Haven's residents lived below the [[poverty threshold|poverty line]].<ref name="Census QuickFacts"/>