Blair TownshipPA
A town of 4,695.
Is Blair Township a good place to live?
Blair Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades A overall, 214th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $85K. It also does better than most on schools: its public schools beat 77% of Pennsylvania towns on state tests and graduation. A typical home there costs about $229K, 3.7 years of the Altoona metro’s $62K median household income. Only 81 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns score lower on history. Blair Township’s average trip to work is 20 minutes, below both the Pennsylvania town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). The biggest park or preserve is State Game Lands Number 147, at 397 acres.
What makes Blair Township stand out
Where Blair Township beats most towns.
How Blair Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Blair Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Blair Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Blair 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 Blair Township.
Blair Township trades workers with Altoona and other neighbors, but it has a long record of flood insurance claims.
Less crime per resident in Blair Township than in 75% of U.S. towns
Pennsylvania has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Blair Township sits closer to the middle.
| Blair Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 7.3 per 1,000 residents | 5.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.1 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
On CDC estimates, Blair Township is healthier than 69% of U.S. towns
Blair Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 3 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 15% of adults report frequent mental distress in Blair Township.
| Blair Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 79% | 79% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 18% | 16% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 5.7% | 7% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Blair Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 10.6% | 14.5% |
| More adults seeing a dentist | 68.8% | 64.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Low risk in Blair Township, with inland flooding at the top
54 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 11 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 69% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 54 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Blair Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Blair Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Blair Township has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 20° and about 38 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most working residents commute out of Blair Township
Blair Township has about as many jobs (1,876) as working residents, but only 86 people both live and work here. The average commute takes 20.2 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Most working residents leave Blair Township for work: only 4% work in town. 7.4% of Blair Township workers work from home. Jobs based in Blair Township fell to 1,876 in 2023, 109 fewer than in 2013.
| Blair Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.4% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 5.8% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.2% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $85,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer young adults than Pennsylvania overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (22% statewide). Blair Township has lost 2.7% of its people since 2020, down to 4,695 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 39% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 35% across Pennsylvania.
| Blair Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 39% | 29% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 23% | 20% | 22% |
| Median age | 43.4 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 19% | 21% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Blair Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 6.9% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 16.2% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.5% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.1% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.4% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.8% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.1% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.8% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.5% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 10.2% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.2% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.5% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 18.8% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,700, single groups can be off by several points
6.6% of Blair Township is conserved land
1.4 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The trail density in Blair Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Blair Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.6% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 147 | — | 397 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Flight 93 National Memorial and 21 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Blair Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw34 mi National MemorialFlight 93 National Memorial286K visitors a year
Big draw40 mi Stadium & arenaBeaver Stadium
3 mi National Historic SiteAllegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site163K visitors a year
5 mi Theme parkLakemont Park
20 mi DamSouth Fork Dam
21 mi LakeRaystown LakePhoto credits
Flight 93 National Memorial: James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Beaver Stadium: Sbvr6 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site: Matthew A. Lynn; Original uploader was Mosamiazaz at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Lakemont Park: Bhakta Dano. Original uploader was Oldano at en.wikipedia, Public domain · South Fork Dam: Ernest Walter Histed, Public domain · Raystown Lake: Tex Jobe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain
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Everything we know about Blair Township
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Blair Township
About 3 of every 100 Blair Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About Blair Township
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Blair Township is a township in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,785 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 14 sq mi
Blair Township’s neighbors
10 towns share a border with Blair Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blair Township | #214 | A | B− | A− | A− | B+ |
| Frankstown Township | #481 | B+ | C | — | A− | A− |
| Hollidaysburg | #159 | A | C+ | B+ | A− | A− |
| Taylor Township | — | — | B− | — | B+ | B− |
| Loop | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Allegheny Township | #801 | C+ | B− | C− | A− | B− |
| Freedom Township | #368 | A− | B+ | — | B+ | B− |
| Penn Farms | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Taylor Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Frankstown Township, Taylor Township and Freedom Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Loop and Penn Farms aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Blair Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Blair Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Blair Township, PA a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Blair Township grades A overall, better than 89% of U.S. towns and #214 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B+ for health, A− for safety and A− for schools.
Is Blair Township, PA safe?
Yes, by national standards. Pennsylvania has less crime than most states, so among its own towns Blair Township sits nearer the middle.
Is Blair 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 B−.