 About 6.3% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.Cecil County is home to a small Amish community in the Cecilton area that was founded in 1999.Amish families moved to the area from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania because of increasing costs and the declining amount of farmland there.