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State College is a borough in Centre County and, with 40,501 residents at the 2020 census, it is the largest borough in Pennsylvania.

State College exists because of Pennsylvania State University - the town grew up around the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, founded in 1855 on land donated by ironmaster James Irvin near the Centre Furnace.

That school became Pennsylvania State College and, in 1953, The Pennsylvania State University; its University Park campus is the university's main campus, and Penn State was named the state's land-grant university in 1863.

State College was officially incorporated as a borough on August 29, 1896, and has grown alongside the university ever since.

State College and its surrounding townships are known as "Happy Valley," a nickname for this part of the Nittany Valley.

Census QuickFacts counts only about 11,257 households in the borough, because so much of its population is students living in dormitories and group quarters rather than households.

Only about 26.1% of State College homes are owner-occupied, one of the lowest rates in Pennsylvania, reflecting its overwhelmingly student renter population.

Thanks to its student population, State College has a median age of about 21 years, making it one of the youngest communities in Pennsylvania.

Penn State's Beaver Stadium, home of the Nittany Lions football team since 1960, has an official capacity of 106,572, making it the second-largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth-largest in the world.

Penn State fans boast that on a home football Saturday, the crowd inside Beaver Stadium alone would make it one of the largest cities in Pennsylvania.