Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Population 5,600: a town in Pennsylvania.
Plenty in its favour, and one clear drawback. Its standout strength is incomes: the median household earns $122K. It also does well on health (B+): it is healthier than 67% of U.S. towns. What holds it back is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. At about $330K, a typical home costs 3.9 years of the York metro’s $85K median household income. All told, that adds up to a B+ overall and a rank of 408th of 1032 in Pennsylvania. On that grade it does better than 74% of U.S. towns.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Hopewell Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Where Hopewell Township beats most towns.
Census counts: 2,432 in 1850, a low of 1,114 in 1940, 5,267 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2009 and 3 maps from 1944 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →3 places in Hopewell Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Hopewell Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Ordered by what stands out in Hopewell Township.
Hopewell Township sends many workers across the state line to Towson, owes part of its health edge to its incomes and has household incomes well above the Pennsylvania norm.
6.9 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The biggest place to walk is Hopewell Area Recreation Complex, 286 acres with 4.1 miles of trail. The concentration of trails for Hopewell Township comes to 0.3 miles per square mile, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 0.5 and U.S. towns at 0.4.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Hopewell Area Recreation Complex | 4.1 mi | 286 |
| 2. Hopewell Area Parks and Recreation | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Public schools: South Eastern SD. Its one school is below. 440 students attend Hopewell Township’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewartstown El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 440 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Hopewell Township’s FEMA risk score stands at 21 of 100. Expected losses in Hopewell Township break down as 55% from inland flooding and 18% from hurricanes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
31% of working residents cross a state line to work, Towson among the top destinations. The average commute for its 2,318 working residents takes 36.6 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Half commute less than 21 miles. Since 2013, Hopewell Township has added 438 jobs, to 1,386 in 2023. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 4% of working residents work locally. Its average trip to work comes in at 37 minutes.
| Hopewell Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 37 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $122,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.3% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 5,425 U.S. towns with household incomes like Hopewell Township’s, it is less healthy than 71%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Hopewell Township: 18% of adults binge drink, close to Pennsylvania’s towns (18%) and above U.S. towns (16%). On the CDC’s 26 measures, Hopewell Township is ahead of Pennsylvania on 3 and behind on 1. 36% of adults have high blood pressure in the town.
| Hopewell Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 5.6% | 7% | 8.1% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 34% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 16% |
| What stands out | Hopewell Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 10.7% | 14.5% |
| More adults seeing a dentist | 68.8% | 64.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A winter brings about 29 inches of snow, with January nights at 22° and July afternoons at 85°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median household earns $122,179, against $77,971 across Pennsylvania, one input to its A− for jobs and income.
In Hopewell Township, the midpoint age is 49.6 years. Adults 35 to 64 are 44% of residents (38% statewide). The share of residents in Hopewell Township who are under 18: 17%. The Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate puts Hopewell Township at 5,600 residents, up 6.3% since 2020.
| Hopewell Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 49.6 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 17% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 25% | 29% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 18% | 21% | 18% |
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.2 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Hopewell Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 6.8% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.8% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 11.2% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.7% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 6.3% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 22.8% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.1% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.2% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.9% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 31.4% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 30.7% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.7% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.4% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 6% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hopewell Township. Close and well known come first.
32 mi Stadium & arenaM&T Bank Stadium
32 mi Stadium & arenaOriole Park at Camden Yards
38 mi Theme parkHersheypark3.1M visitors a year
33 mi MuseumNS Savannah
33 mi National MonumentFort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine283K visitors a year
31 mi MuseumWalters Art MuseumM&T Bank Stadium: United States Department of Defense Cherie Cullen, Public domain · Oriole Park at Camden Yards: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Hersheypark: Epicgenius, CC BY-SA 4.0 · NS Savannah: Elton Lord/Atomic Energy Commission, Public domain · Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine: ScottyBoy900Q at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Walters Art Museum: Dylan k, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hopewell 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.
None within 15 miles of Hopewell Township; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Hopewell Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Hopewell Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,267 at the 2020 census. It is served by the South Eastern School District, which provides public education.
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5 towns share a border with Hopewell Township.
Shrewsbury Township next door grades higher for schools (A to Hopewell Township’s B) and lower for cost of living (C− to B).
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopewell Township | #408 | B+ | B | — | B | B+ |
| Shrewsbury Township | #482 | B+ | C− | — | A | B+ |
| Fawn Township | #718 | B− | C+ | — | B | B |
| East Hopewell Township | #707 | B− | C+ | — | B | B |
| North Hopewell Township | #472 | B+ | B− | A | C | B+ |
| Shrewsbury | #249 | A | C+ | — | A | A− |
Hopewell Township, Shrewsbury Township, Fawn Township, East Hopewell Township and Shrewsbury report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hopewell Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Hopewell Township grades B+ overall, better than 74% of U.S. towns and #408 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B+ for health and B 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 B.
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