 About 14.1% of families and 16.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.5% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.The community was founded in 1806 by Lt. Col. George Weirick (1773–1838), a veteran of the War of 1812, and son of Capt.Wilhelm Weirick (1731–1807), a veteran of the American Revolution, and grandson of German immigrant Johann Georg Weyrich (1702–1751).