Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 8,780, settled in 1891.
Honey Brook Township’s lowest grade is for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $467K, 5.1 years of the Philadelphia metro’s $91K median household income. It does especially well on schools — its schools rank ahead of 78% of Pennsylvania towns. Put together, the subjects come to a B− overall, better than 49% of U.S. towns. That places it 702nd of 1032 in Pennsylvania. A third of the land locally is conserved, against 8.2% in Pennsylvania’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Honey Brook Tract, at 42 acres. 22% of workers do their job from home locally, above both the Pennsylvania town median (12%) and the median of U.S. towns (11%).
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
Where Honey Brook Township beats most towns.
Where Honey Brook 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 Honey Brook Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 470 in 1880, 1,892 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1942 and 6 maps from 1905 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Honey Brook Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw40 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile Arena
Big draw40 mi MuseumLynnewood Hall
Big draw39 mi MuseumEastern State Penitentiary
39 mi MuseumAcademy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
39 mi Park & preserveSchuylkill River
19 mi GardenLongwood GardensXfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0 · Lynnewood Hall: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain · Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University: See below, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Schuylkill River: Emy111 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Honey Brook 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 Honey Brook Township.
A typical home in Honey Brook Township is worth about $467,000, up 2.8% in a year, 63% above the Pennsylvania typical home. In Honey Brook Township, the rent at the middle of the market is $1,585 a month. Among households here, 75% own their home.
| Honey Brook Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,585 a month | $1,114 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 78% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Below: Two of its 8 schools, each with why it was picked. Twin Valley SD runs its public schools. Enrollment at Honey Brook Township’s public school: 289 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honey Brook El CtrLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 289 | A− |
| Honey Brook Christian Academy PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 1–12 | Grades 1–12 | 29 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
The national flood insurance program has paid one claim in Honey Brook Township since 2003. Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 91% of U.S. communities. 43% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by drought at 22%.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its 5,252 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in 93% of Pennsylvania towns.
3.5 miles of trail wind through 3 parks and preserves. For Honey Brook Township, the density of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Honey Brook Tract | 0.6 mi | 42 |
| 2. William Penn State Forest | — | 42 |
| 3. Honey Brook Township Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For most workers, Honey Brook Township is a place to come home to: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Philadelphia (6%), Uwchlan Township (4%) and West Whiteland Township (3%). The median commute is under 17 miles. Employers in Honey Brook Township added 210 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 2,380.
| Honey Brook Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 22% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
College graduates make up nearly a third of adults 25 and older, against 35% across Pennsylvania. People 65 and older are 29% of residents (20% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 29% of residents (38% statewide). Honey Brook Township has grown 6.2% since 2020, to 8,780 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. The midpoint age here is 47.3 years.
| Honey Brook Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 47.3 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 22% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 29% | 29% |
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.6 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Honey Brook Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.5% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.7% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 13.3% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 6.6% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 4% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.1% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.8% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 17% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 14.1% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 32.5% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 14% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.4% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.3% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.6% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Summer afternoons peak near 84° in July, and January nights bottom out around 22°; snowfall runs to about 23 inches a winter. Honey Brook Township has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In Honey Brook Township, 32% of adults have high blood pressure. For adults in the town, the share who sleep under 7 hours is 34%.
| Honey Brook Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 38% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Honey Brook Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 7.4% | 5.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.4% | 8.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.1% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
None within 15 miles of Honey Brook Township; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Honey Brook Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
Honey Brook is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of the borough was 1,895 at the 2020 census. The borough is surrounded by Honey Brook Township, and both are referred to locally collectively as Honey Brook.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
6 towns share a border with Honey Brook Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honey Brook Township | #702 | B− | C− | — | A− | B− |
| West Nantmeal Township | — | — | C | — | A− | B+ |
| West Caln Township | #690 | B− | C− | A | C− | B |
| Caernarvon Township · Caernarvon Township | #795 | C+ | C | — | C+ | C+ |
| Salisbury Township | #856 | C | C− | — | C+ | C+ |
| West Brandywine Township | #696 | B− | D | A | C− | A− |
West Nantmeal Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Honey Brook Township, West Nantmeal Township, Caernarvon Township and Salisbury Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Caernarvon Township and Caernarvon Township are one community, graded once. Compare Honey Brook Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Honey Brook Township grades B− overall, better than 49% of U.S. towns and #702 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B− for health and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
