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Demographics and Statistics for
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
The City of Hazleton, PA and its surrounding communities are collectively known as the Greater Hazleton Area. The Greater Hazleton Area spans three counties: southern Luzerne County, northern Schuylkill County, and northern Carbon County. The population of the Greater Hazleton Area was 80,351 at the 2000 census, with the population of the city of Hazleton at 23,329.
Hazleton was at the forefront of many technology revolutions over the years. The coal mined in Hazleton established the United States as a world industrial power, primarily fueling the massive blast furnaces at Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which was one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the world and one of the most powerful symbols of American industrial manufacturing leadership.
Then, in 1891, Hazleton became the third city in the United States to establish a city-wide electric grid. Finally, in 1948 cable television was invented in a community just outside Hazleton.
Hazleton has a great many public works projects to its credit, with several current projects bringing the promise of more jobs to the area. Worth noting, the 2008 cost of living index in Hazleton was 84.1, while the U.S. average is 100)
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HAZLETON, PA
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