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A town of 7,730. Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Trash & recyclingBrecknock Township's standout: the median household earns $99K. Overall it grades C+, 770th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns. Its lowest everyday mark is in cost of living: the typical home is worth about $348K, 4 years of the Lancaster metro’s $87K median household income. 17% of the land in Brecknock Township is conserved, against 8.2% in Pennsylvania’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Its National Register listings include Red Run Covered Bridge and John B. Good House. Brecknock Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 85% of U.S. towns.
Where Brecknock Township beats most towns.
Where Brecknock 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 Brecknock Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 4,068 in 1980, 7,585 in 2020. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 1850 and 7 maps from 1906 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Brecknock Township. Close and well known come first.
34 mi Theme parkHersheypark3.0M visitors a year
30 mi GardenLongwood Gardens
37 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
16 mi Theme parkDutch Wonderland
9 mi MuseumEphrata Cloister
36 mi MuseumWinterthur Museum, Garden and LibraryHersheypark: Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dutch Wonderland: FlugKerl2, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ephrata Cloister: 1549bcp at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library: Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in Brecknock 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 Brecknock Township.
Brecknock Township has added a third more jobs in ten years, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding) and trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Jobs based here grew from 1,083 in 2013 to 1,587.
Most working residents leave Brecknock Township for work: only 9% work in town. 2.2% of residents live below the poverty line in Brecknock Township, below both Pennsylvania’s towns (7.6%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Jobs based in Brecknock Township grew to 1,587 in 2023, 504 more than in 2013.
| Brecknock Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 2.2% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $99,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 9.4% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by Eastern Lancaster County SD. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brecknock El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 441 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
1.6 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves. The biggest place to walk is State Game Lands Number 52, 895 acres with 1 miles of trail. The trail density in Brecknock Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 52 | 1 mi | 895 |
| 2. Brubaker Park | 0.1 mi | 89 |
| 3. Bowmansville Memorial Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Brecknock Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 22° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 85% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $367 per resident a year; that rating is what its C+ for hazard risk is built on.
Brecknock Township’s FEMA risk score is 60 of 100. Since 1984, 10 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Brecknock Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Against the 8,715 U.S. towns with household incomes like Brecknock Township’s, it is less healthy than 74%, so it trails even them.
Brecknock Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 19% of adults smoke cigarettes in Brecknock Township.
| Brecknock Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Brecknock Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8.3% | 5.8% |
| More smokers | 18.5% | 15.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.7% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
5 within 15 miles of the center of Brecknock Township
About 2 of every 100 Brecknock Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
3 places in Brecknock Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Brecknock Township is a township in northeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,585 at the 2020 census.
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9 towns share a border with Brecknock Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brecknock Township | #770 | C+ | C | — | C+ | B− |
| East Cocalico Township | #208 | A | C+ | A | A− | B |
| Caernarvon Township | #795 | C+ | C | — | C+ | C+ |
| East Earl Township | #418 | B+ | B− | A− | C+ | C |
| Swartzville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fivepointville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brecknock Township | #424 | B+ | C | A+ | B− | B+ |
| Earl Township | #792 | C+ | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
Brecknock Township, Caernarvon Township and Earl Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Swartzville and Fivepointville aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Brecknock Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Brecknock Township grades C+ overall, better than 42% of U.S. towns and #770 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
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