Borough of Roseto | |
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 Garibaldi Avenue in Roseto in August 2015 | |
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 Location of Roseto in Northampton County, Pennsylvania (left) and of Northampton County in Pennsylvania (right) | |
  Roseto Location of Roseto in Pennsylvania  Roseto Roseto (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 40°52′50″N 75°13′02″W / 40.88056°N 75.21722°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Pennsylvania |
| County | Northampton |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ilene R. Tillman[1] |
| Area | |
• City | 0.64 sq mi (1.64 km2) |
| • Land | 0.63 sq mi (1.63 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.02 km2) |
| Elevation | 794 ft (242 m) |
| Population | |
• City | 1,581 |
| • Density | 2,513.51/sq mi (971.01/km2) |
| • Metro | 865,310 (US: 68th) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Code | 18013 |
| Area code(s) | 610 and 484 |
| FIPS code | 42-66168 |
| School district | Bangor Area School District |
| Website | boroughroseto.com |
Roseto (locally /ˌroʊzɛtə/) is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The population of Roseto was 1,567 at the 2010 census. Roseto is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th most populated metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Roseto is known in the fields of sociology and cardiology for the Roseto effect, wherein the close-knit Italian American community exhibited half the national average rate of heart disease in the mid-20th century. This finding helped to establish that stress can contribute to heart disease.[4]
- ^ "Borough Council, Mayor, and Committees". boroughroseto.com. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
- ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-316-01792-3.