East Penn TownshipPA
A town of 2,812, settled in 1829.
Is East Penn Township a good place to live?
East Penn Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $228K for a typical one, or 2.7 years of the Allentown metro’s $85K median household income. It grades C overall, ranked 869th of 1032 in Pennsylvania. On the plus side, it has 17 miles of trail. East Penn Township’s average trip to work is 41 minutes, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 26 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. On walkability, just 117 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns do worse. The biggest place to walk is State Game Lands 217, 1,566 acres with 2.6 miles of trail.
96% of working residents leave East Penn Township for work
Where East Penn Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How East Penn Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far East Penn Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom and 37 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Penn Township. Close and well known come first.
17 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
18 mi Stadium & arenaPPL Center
6 mi MuseumAsa Packer Mansion
28 mi Park & preserveLehigh River
18 mi State parkHickory Run State Park12 mi Ski areaBlue Mountain Resort44 runs · 1,077 ft verticalPhoto credits
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PPL Center: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Asa Packer Mansion: Chris18240 (talk), Public domain · Lehigh River: The original uploader was Malepheasant at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Hickory Run State Park: Mtruch, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to East Penn Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in East Penn 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 East Penn Township.
Conserved land covers 24.7% of East Penn Township
The trail density in East Penn Township is 0.7 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge | 7.4 mi | 754 |
| 2. State Game Lands 217 | 2.6 mi | 1,566 |
| 3. East Penn Riverview Park | — | 18 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most working residents commute out of East Penn Township
East Penn Township has 193 jobs for its 1,244 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 40.8 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Most working residents leave East Penn Township for work: only 4% work in town. 17% of East Penn Township workers work from home. The top destinations are Upper Macungie Township (6%), Allentown (6%) and Mahoning Township (4%).
| East Penn Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 17% | 12% | 11% |
| Median household income | $70,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.3% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 10% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
East Penn Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
East Penn Township has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 19° and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
East Penn Township faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 61% of U.S. communities. Since 2000, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out in East Penn Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On CDC estimates, East Penn Township is less healthy than 54% of U.S. towns
East Penn Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 18% of adults smoke cigarettes in East Penn Township.
| East Penn Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 16% |
| What stands out | East Penn Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 7.3% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.5% | 7.7% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.7% | 7.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about East Penn Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of East Penn Township
About 4 of every 100 East Penn Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About East Penn Township
Township in Pennsylvania, US
East Penn Township is a rural township in the rough uplands terrain of the eastern Mahoning Hills area of Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The township has a complementary or sister township, West Penn Township, directly to the west in Schuylkill County. The township sits between two ridgelines of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, but with multiple hilltops, its terrain is unlike many nearby valley floors between similar ridgelines. The population was 2,881 at the 2010 United States census, up from 2,461 at the 2000 census.
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- Area
- 23 sq mi
- Elevation
- 535 ft
East Penn Township’s neighbors
8 towns share a border with East Penn Township.
All 6 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its C; Mahoning Township (C) is closest.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Penn Township | #869 | C | B | — | B− | B− |
| Palmerton | #415 | B+ | B+ | A− | B | C |
| Heidelberg Township | #307 | A− | B | — | A− | A− |
| Bowmanstown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lower Towamensing Township | #715 | B− | B | — | B | C+ |
| Mahoning Township | #852 | C | B− | C | B− | B− |
| Washington Township | #742 | B− | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| West Penn Township | #689 | B− | B− | A | C+ | C |
East Penn Township, Heidelberg Township, Lower Towamensing Township and Washington Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Bowmanstown isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare East Penn Township with a neighbor →
Questions about East Penn Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is East Penn Township, PA a good place to live?
East Penn Township grades C overall, better than 31% of U.S. towns and #869 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B− for health and B− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is East Penn 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.