Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Royersford, PA

Royersford is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on the Schuylkill River about 32 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

Royersford drew its name from a ford across the Schuylkill River that stood next to land owned by the Royer family.

Royersford was formed from the southeastern corner of Limerick Township and incorporated as a borough in 1879.

In the early twentieth century Royersford was a busy industrial town with several stove factories, two glass and bottle works, hosiery and silk mills, a dye and bleaching plant, and factories making bricks, gas meters, shirts, wagons and farm implements.

Royersford's Continental Stove Works, a relic of its stove-making heyday, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Royersford's population grew from 2,607 in 1900 to an all-time high of 4,940 at the 2020 census.

Royersford contained about 2,350 housing units at the 2010 census, packed into a borough of less than one square mile.

With a land area of about 0.79 square miles, Royersford's population density exceeds 6,000 people per square mile.

Royersford students attend the Spring-Ford Area School District, which it shares with neighboring Spring City and surrounding townships.