Daugherty TownshipPA
A town of 3,035.
Is Daugherty Township a good place to live?
Daugherty Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $191K, 2.5 years of the Pittsburgh metro’s $76K median household income. It grades B− overall, 737th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns. On the plus side, natural-hazard risk is low. On walkability, just 114 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns do worse.
What makes Daugherty Township stand out
Where Daugherty Township beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Daugherty Township for work
Where Daugherty Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Daugherty Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Daugherty Township is from typical.
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Moving to Daugherty Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Daugherty 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 Daugherty Township.
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Daugherty Township’s workers commute out
Jobs based here fell from 903 in 2013 to 494.
Most working residents leave Daugherty Township for work: only 2% work in town. Jobs based in Daugherty Township fell to 494 in 2023, 409 fewer than in 2013. Daugherty Township’s average trip to work is 28 minutes, above both the Pennsylvania town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Daugherty Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.7% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Daugherty Township’s public schools trail 59% of Pennsylvania districts
Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| The School at McGuire Memorial PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 77 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Daugherty Township faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 77% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Daugherty Township
Daugherty Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. Daugherty Township’s July high is 83°F, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 85°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Older than Pennsylvania overall
People 65 and older are 28% of residents (20% statewide); children under 18 are 13% of residents (21% statewide). The median age in Daugherty Township is 51.9 years. Daugherty Township has lost 2.2% of its people since 2020, down to 3,035 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Daugherty Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 51.9 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 13% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 26% | 29% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.6 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Daugherty Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.4% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 5.9% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 3.9% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.3% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.2% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.3% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 18.5% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 19% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.6% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.3% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 35.7% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 16% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.9% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.8% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.3% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,000, single groups can be off by several points
On CDC estimates, Daugherty Township is less healthy than 52% of U.S. towns
Daugherty Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 19% of Daugherty Township adults binge drink.
| Daugherty Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 35% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| What stands out | Daugherty Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with arthritis | 34.4% | 30.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Acrisure Stadium and 57 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Daugherty Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
25 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
25 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
33 mi Theme parkKennywood
26 mi Stadium & arenaPPG Paints Arena
25 mi LandmarkFort PittPhoto credits
Acrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · PPG Paints Arena: Jleedev, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Pitt: Downtown_Pittsburgh_May_2008.jpg: Allie Caufield derivative work: GrapedApe (tal, CC BY 2.0
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Everything we know about Daugherty Township
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Daugherty Township
About 2 of every 100 Daugherty Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About Daugherty Township
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Daugherty Township is a township in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,078 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
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- Area
- 9.9 sq mi
Daugherty Township’s neighbors
7 towns share a border with Daugherty Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daugherty Township | #737 | B− | B+ | — | C+ | B− |
| Eastvale | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rochester Township | #754 | C+ | A | — | C | C− |
| Pulaski Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | B− |
| Beaver Falls | #816 | C+ | A | B− | C | D |
| North Sewickley Township | #165 | A | A− | A | A− | B− |
| New Brighton | #771 | C+ | A | C− | C+ | C+ |
| New Sewickley Township | #899 | C | C− | — | B | C+ |
Pulaski Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Daugherty Township, Rochester Township, Pulaski Township and New Sewickley Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Eastvale isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Daugherty Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Daugherty Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Daugherty Township, PA a good place to live?
Daugherty Township grades B− overall, better than 46% of U.S. towns and #737 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Daugherty Township, PA expensive?
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 B+.