| Official Name: | Penn Lake Park |
| Nickname: | Penn Lake |
| Settlement Type: | Borough |
| Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania#USA |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Luzerne |
| Government Type: | Borough Council |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1938 |
| Established Title1: | Incorporated |
| Established Date1: | 1976 |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.31 |
| Area Land Km2: | 4.10 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.21 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.67 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.58 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.08 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 360 |
| Population Density Km2: | 87.83 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 227.42 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 41.115°N -75.77°W |
| Elevation Ft: | 1400 |
| Postal Code Type: | Zip code |
| Area Code: | 570 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 42-59054 |
Penn Lake Park is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 359 at the 2020 census.[2]
The community was founded in 1938, after ice salesman Albert Lewis used the lake to chip out his product. In 1946, Harry and Mary Goeringer bought the lake — and the 800 acres around it — from Lewis. They built a house by the lake; they later divided the rest of the land into parcels. It became a borough in 1976, when Penn Lake Park applied for a state grant because the lake's dam needed a major repair.[3]
Penn Lake Park is located at 41.115°N -75.7699°W.[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 4.2km2, of which 4km2 is land and 0.2km2, or 5.05%, is water.[5]
Penn Lake Park is located south of Wilkes-Barre.
As of the census of 2000, there were 269 people, 118 households, and 84 families residing in the borough. The population density was 137.5sp=usNaNsp=us. There were 222 housing units at an average density of 113.5sp=usNaNsp=us. The racial makeup of the borough was 98.88% White, 1.12% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.74% of the population.
There were 118 households, out of which 23.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.6% were married couples living together, 5.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 22.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.67.
In the borough the population was spread out, with 19.0% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 31.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 105.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.2 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $45,139, and the median income for a family was $50,000. Males had a median income of $29,018 versus $26,000 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $20,437. About 5.7% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 20.8% of those sixty five or over.