Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 26,069.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Exeter Township grades B overall, ranked 591st of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It has 128 miles of trail. Its schools rank ahead of 76% of Pennsylvania towns. The trade-off is money: homes are expensive, about $282K for a typical one and 3.5 times the Reading metro’s $80K median household income. Exeter Township’s trail density is 5.2 miles per square mile, against 0.4 in Pennsylvania’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Exeter Township has 7 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Mill Tract Farm and Boonecroft.
Where Exeter Township beats most towns.
11.2% of the town is conserved land, across 10 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Exeter Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 14,419 in 1980, 25,500 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1862 and 8 maps from 1894 on.
7 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Exeter Township takes its name from Exeter in Devon, England, 3,430 miles across the Atlantic.
UKUK editionExeter Township takes its name from Exeter, a city in Devon, England.
8 more U.S. towns are named after Exeter:Exeter, NH16,213Exeter, CA10,122Exeter, RI6,540Exeter, PA5,587Exeter, WI2,209+3 more
Named after: each U.S. town’s Wikipedia article. Grades compare each town with towns in its own country, so they aren’t a head-to-head.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Exeter 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 Exeter Township.
Exeter Township owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it reports more crime than Birdsboro and its other graded neighbors and has a long record of flood insurance claims.
Daniel Boone Homestead, at 546 acres with 10.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Daniel Boone Homestead | 10.5 mi | 546 |
| 2. St. Lawrence Borough Watershed | 9.7 mi | 220 |
| 3. Neversink Mountain Preserve | 5.4 mi | 182 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter Twp JHSLargest public middle schoolGrades 7–8 | Grades 7–8 | 618 | B− |
| Exeter Twp SHSLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,312 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Most working residents leave Exeter Township for work: only 8% work in town. At $100,000, Exeter Township’s median household income is where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at $81,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000. The top destinations are Reading (9%), West Reading (4%) and Wyomissing (4%).
| Exeter Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $100,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 14% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
295 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 31 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 78% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 295 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Exeter Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Against the 8,584 U.S. towns with household incomes like Exeter Township’s, it is healthier than 52%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Exeter Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 40% of Exeter Township adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Exeter Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Exeter Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 7.8% | 5.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Exeter Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 22° and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Exeter Township is safe by national standards, yet each of the 3 graded towns on its borders reports less crime per resident, from Birdsboro (A) to Robeson Township (A). Reported crimes fell from 355 to 295 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Pennsylvania has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Exeter Township sits closer to the middle. Exeter Township’s violent crime rate is 0.4 per 1,000 residents.
| Exeter Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.4 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 10.9 per 1,000 residents | 5.7 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Pennsylvania average. 35% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Exeter Township. Exeter Township has grown 2.4% since 2020, to 26,069 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Exeter Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 43.5 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 21% | 20% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 19% | 21% | 18% |
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.7 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Exeter Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.7% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.3% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.6% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.7% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.6% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.8% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.3% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 7.1% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 34.7% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.3% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.9% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
60.8% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 48.2% across Pennsylvania. The median property tax bill is $5,048, against $3,311 across Pennsylvania, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The median rent in Exeter Township is $1,632 a month.
| Exeter Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,632 a month | $1,114 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 87% | 78% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Exeter Township. Close and well known come first.
24 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
32 mi GardenLongwood Gardens5 mi Stadium & arenaSovereign Center
37 mi MuseumWinterthur Museum, Garden and Library
24 mi National Historical ParkValley Forge National Historical Park1.8M visitors a year
28 mi Theme parkDutch WonderlandDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library: Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY-SA 2.5 · Valley Forge National Historical Park: The original uploader was JGHowes at English Wikipedia. (Original text: en:User, Attribution · Dutch Wonderland: FlugKerl2, CC BY-SA 3.0
5 within 15 miles of the center of Exeter Township
About 5 of every 100 Exeter Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
Where Exeter Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
7 places in Exeter Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Exeter Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,500 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous municipality in Berks County after the city of Reading and Spring Township. Daniel Boone Homestead is within its borders. This formerly rural township is now made up of mostly sprawl-oriented developments along U.S. Route 422 (Perkiomen Avenue) and Route 562 (St. Lawrence Avenue/Boyertown Pike).
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10 towns share a border with Exeter Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter Township | #591 | B | C− | B | A− | B+ |
| Robeson Township | #277 | A− | C | A | A− | B+ |
| Oley Township | #209 | A | C− | — | A− | A |
| Birdsboro | #380 | A− | C+ | A | B | B |
| Amity Township | #373 | A− | C− | A | B | B+ |
| St. Lawrence | — | — | B− | — | A− | A− |
| Gibraltar | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lower Alsace Township | #677 | B− | C+ | — | C− | B+ |
St. Lawrence has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Oley Township, St. Lawrence and Lower Alsace Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Gibraltar isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Exeter Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Exeter Township grades B overall, better than 59% of U.S. towns and #591 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B+ for health, B for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes, by national standards. Pennsylvania has less crime than most states, so among its own towns Exeter Township sits nearer the middle.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $282,000, 2% below the Pennsylvania typical home. 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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