Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,620.
Boggs Township’s best subject grade is an A− for cost of living; its weakest is a D for incomes. The biggest place to walk is State Game Lands Number 98, 1,159 acres with 1.1 miles of trail. Boggs Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 86% of U.S. towns. Boggs Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Boggs Township beats most towns.
Where Boggs Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Boggs Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 2022.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Boggs 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Boggs Township.
Flood insurance has paid out on 5 claims locally since 1997. Boggs Township’s FEMA risk score is 15 of 100. Expected losses in Boggs Township break down as 71% from inland flooding and 7% from strong winds.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Boggs Township, 5.1% of workers do their job from home, below both Pennsylvania’s towns (12%) and U.S. towns (11%). The town had 127 jobs in 2023, down 70 from 2013. Among residents here, 23% live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Lawrence Township (17%), Clearfield (7%) and Bradford Township (6%).
| Boggs Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 23% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 5.1% | 12% | 11% |
| Median household income | $61,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For adults in Boggs Township, the share who smoke cigarettes is 20%. In Boggs Township, 22% of adults say their health is fair or poor, against 19% in Pennsylvania’s towns and 19% across U.S. towns. Two figures for adults here: 40% sleep under 7 hours, 15% report frequent physical distress.
| Boggs Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 17% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 36% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 34% | 35% |
| What stands out | Boggs Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.9% | 7.7% |
| More smokers | 20% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
July afternoons reach 80°, January nights drop to 17° and about 50 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
10 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. In Boggs Township, the trail network density is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Boggs Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 98 | 1.1 mi | 1,159 |
| 2. Boggs Township Community Park | 0.2 mi | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Boggs Township; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Boggs Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Boggs Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,666 at the 2020 census.
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9 towns share a border with Boggs Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boggs Township | — | — | A− | — | B− | C |
| Lawrence Township | #893 | C | A− | — | C | C− |
| Woodward Township | #551 | B | A+ | — | B+ | C |
| Bradford Township | #827 | C+ | A | — | C | C |
| Wallaceton | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Decatur Township | #588 | B | A | — | B− | C− |
| Graham Township | — | — | A− | — | C | B− |
| West Decatur | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Boggs Township and Graham Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Boggs Township, Lawrence Township, Woodward Township, Bradford Township, Decatur Township and Graham Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Wallaceton and West Decatur aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Boggs Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.