With industrial restructuring, companies were being bought by larger foreign or domestic companies who didn't have the local employees' interests in mind, costing the town many jobs, the town population declined through the 1960s and people were drawn to larger cities for work. From 2000 to 2010, there was an increase in population due to people having second homes, retiring in the area and an influx of people looking for more economical housing from the cities. This they could do because the borough is roughly an hour drive from Washington, DC, Baltimore, Maryland and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and their associated airports.