Bart TownshipPA
A town of 3,269, settled in 1823.
Is Bart Township a good place to live?
Bart Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, 818th of 1032 graded towns in Pennsylvania, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $75K. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: residents are less healthy than 62% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $316K, 3.6 years of the Lancaster metro’s $87K median household income. Bart Township’s age of the median resident is 27.9 years, against 43.2 years in Pennsylvania’s towns and 40.5 years across U.S. towns. Only 4 of the 1,035 Pennsylvania towns we compare have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Bart Township.
86% of working residents leave Bart Township for work
Where Bart Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Bart Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Bart Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Bart Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bart Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Bart Township.
On state tests, Bart Township’s schools trail 61% of Pennsylvania districts
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bart View School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 28 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
With only 0.5 jobs per working resident, most people in Bart Township work out of town
Jobs based here grew from 344 in 2013 to 587.
Bart Township: just over one in ten residents live below the poverty line. For most workers, Bart Township is a place to come home to: only 14% work in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in the town rose by 243, to 587. Its average commute comes in at 22 minutes.
| Bart Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 8.4% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Bart Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 22° and about 18 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
For health, Bart Township earns a C+
Just over three quarters of adults had a checkup this year in Bart Township. Two figures for adults here: 19% report frequent mental distress, 26% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Bart Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Bart Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 9.8% | 5.8% |
| More smokers | 19.5% | 15.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest natural risk in Bart Township is inland flooding, at a moderate overall level
FEMA puts 64% of Bart Township’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 19% to hurricanes. On expected storm and flood damage, Bart Township sits above 55% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims in the town since 1978: 2.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Hersheypark and 62 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bart Township. Close and well known come first.
40 mi Theme parkHersheypark3.0M visitors a year
21 mi GardenLongwood Gardens
11 mi Theme parkDutch Wonderland
6 mi MuseumRailroad Museum of Pennsylvania
26 mi MuseumWinterthur Museum, Garden and Library
37 mi Stadium & arenaSubaru ParkPhoto credits
Hersheypark: Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dutch Wonderland: FlugKerl2, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania: Dough4872, Public domain · Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library: Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY-SA 2.5 · Subaru Park: Something Original (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Bart Township
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Bart Township
About 2 of every 100 Bart Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About Bart Township
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US
Georgetown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Bart Township, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,022. Georgetown has a post office for P.O. boxes that is called Bart and has the ZIP code of 17503. Otherwise, the CDP is divided into three ZIP code areas for more distant communities. Half of the small community of Nickel Mines, the site of the West Nickel Mines School shooting, is within the Georgetown CDP. The alleged shooter, Charles Carl Roberts IV, was a resident of Georgetown, where he lived with his wife and children.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Elevation
- 673 ft
- ZIP code
- 17503
Bart Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Bart Township.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Paradise Township (C) comes closest.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bart Township | #818 | C+ | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
| Eden Township | — | — | C | — | C+ | C+ |
| Sadsbury Township | #868 | C | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
| Colerain Township | #874 | C | C+ | — | C+ | C |
| Paradise Township | #855 | C | C | — | C+ | C+ |
| Georgetown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Eden Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Bart Township, Eden Township, Sadsbury Township, Colerain Township and Paradise Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Georgetown isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Bart Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Bart Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Bart Township, PA a good place to live?
Bart Township grades C+ overall, better than 37% of U.S. towns and #818 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ for health and C+ for schools.
Is Bart Township, PA expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.