Mid-Atlantic

Carlisle

Cumberland County, PA

Population

20,846

Walk Score

93 · Walker's Paradise

Median rent

$964

Median home value

$208,900

Settled

1751

Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 20,118; including suburbs in the neighboring townships, 37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster. Carlisle is the smaller principal city of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, which includes Cumberland and Dauphin and Perry counties in South Central Pennsylvania.

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On the National Register

Historic districts

  • Carlisle Historic District · listed 1979
  • Carlisle Indian School · listed 1966

Notable landmarks

  • Carlisle Armory · listed 1989
  • Given, James, Tavern · listed 1992
  • Hessian Powder Magazine · listed 1974
  • Old West, Dickinson College · listed 1966

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