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Welcome to the Easton Home page. The Easton Home page provides as much information as possible on Easton. Knowing Easton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Easton’s Home page, you will also find Easton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Easton has a population of 27274. 49.8% of Easton’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.2 are female. 34.1% of Easton is married and 47.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $129,448, and the average rent is $1,023. Household median income in Easton is $55,201, and the individual median income is $24,009. Easton’s Ethnic is the following: White(66.7%), Hispanic(19.2%), Black(17.1%), Multiple(9.9%), Other(3.5%), Asian(2.5%), Native(0.4%).


Easton is a city in, and the county seat of, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census. Easton is located at the confluence of the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) river that joins the Delaware River in Easton and serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Easton is the easternmost city in the Lehigh Valley, a region of 731 square miles (1,890 km2) that is Pennsylvania's third largest metropolitan region with 861,889 residents as of the U.S.


2020 census. Of the Valley's three major cities, Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton, Easton is the smallest with approximately one-fourth the population of Allentown, the Valley's largest city. The greater Easton area includes the city of Easton, three townships (Forks, Palmer, and Williams), and three boroughs (Glendon, West Easton, and Wilson).


Centre Square, the city's town square in its downtown neighborhood, is home to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, a memorial for Easton area veterans killed during the American Civil War. In the first half of the 20th century, Centre Square was referred to locally as the Circle. The Peace Candle, a candle-like structure, is assembled and disassembled every year atop the Civil War monument for the Christmas season.Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line, formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, runs through Easton on its way to Bethlehem and Allentown heading west across the Delaware River to Phillipsburg, New Jersey.


Easton is located 17.3 miles (27.8 km) northeast of Allentown, 77 miles (124 km) north of Philadelphia, and 72 miles (116 km) west of New York City.


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