Jenks TownshipPA
A town of 3,662.
Is Jenks Township a good place to live?
Jenks Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $100K, 1.9 years of the county’s $52K median household income. It grades C overall, 894th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns. 70% of the land in Jenks Township is conserved, above both Pennsylvania’s towns (8.2%) and U.S. towns (4.3%). On civic life, just 68 of Pennsylvania’s 1,717 towns do worse. State Game Lands Number 28, at 1,029 acres with 2.6 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Every workday, about 1,038 people come to Jenks Township for work
Where Jenks Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Jenks Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Jenks Township is from typical.
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Moving to Jenks Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Jenks 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 Jenks Township.
Jenks Township draws workers from Farmington Township and beyond and keeps more of its land conserved than most of Pennsylvania, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding).
Conserved land covers nearly a third of Jenks Township
Its 37,633 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in any other Pennsylvania town.
101 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves. Jenks Township’s trail density is 1.2 miles per square mile, above both the Pennsylvania town median (0.4) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4).
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 28 | 2.6 mi | 1,029 |
| 2. State Game Lands Number 24 | — | 106 |
| 3. MACA Park | — | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Public schools in Jenks Township fall behind 65% of Pennsylvania districts
Its public schools are run by Forest Area SD. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Forest El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 70 | B+ |
| East Forest JSHSLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 58 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
About one in eight working residents works right in Jenks Township
1,120 jobs are based in Jenks Township, 1.7 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 17.4 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Most working residents leave Jenks Township for work: only 12% work in town. The average trip to work in Jenks Township is 17 minutes. Since 2013, Jenks Township has added 219 jobs, to 1,120 in 2023.
| Jenks Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 17 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $52,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.6% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 6.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Compared with most of Pennsylvania and the rest of the country, more of Jenks Township’s adults smoke cigarettes
Against the 6,412 U.S. towns with household incomes like Jenks Township’s, it is healthier than 61%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
24% of Jenks Township adults smoke cigarettes. Among 1,035 Pennsylvania towns, just 10 have a higher share of adults who binge drink than Jenks Township. 44% of Jenks Township adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Jenks Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 16% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 18% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 38% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Jenks Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6% | 8.8% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 26.2% | 30.4% |
| More uninsured adults | 12.5% | 5.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Jenks Township has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Jenks Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Jenks Township’s July high is 80°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Jenks Township faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 89% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $587 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
Since 1996, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Jenks Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Jenks Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Jenks Township; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Jenks Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
101 miles of trails in Jenks Township
69.9% of the town is conserved land, across 3 parks and preserves.
Jenks Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Jenks Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenks Township | #894 | C | A | — | C+ | C |
| Millstone Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Howe Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kingsley Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Highland Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Green Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Barnett Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Jenks Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Millstone Township, Howe Township, Kingsley Township, Highland Township, Green Township and Barnett Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Jenks Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Jenks Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Jenks Township, PA a good place to live?
Jenks Township grades C overall, better than 28% of U.S. towns and #894 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C for health and C+ for schools.
Is Jenks 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 A.