Lamar TownshipPA
A town of 2,653.
Is Lamar Township a good place to live?
Lamar Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, ranked 922nd of 1032 in Pennsylvania, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $92K. Its lowest everyday mark is in schools: its public schools trail 60% of Pennsylvania towns on state tests and graduation. A typical home there costs about $248K, 4.1 years of the Lock Haven area’s $61K median household income. 43% of the land in Lamar Township is conserved, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 8.2% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Bald Eagle State Forest, at 8,420 acres with 31.8 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. On history, just 147 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns do worse.
39 miles of trails in Lamar Township
42.8% of the town is conserved land, across 7 parks and preserves.
How Lamar Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Lamar Township is from typical.
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Moving to Lamar Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lamar 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 Lamar Township.
Lamar Township keeps more of its land conserved than most of Pennsylvania and trades workers with Lock Haven and other neighbors, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding).
Conserved land covers nearly a third of Lamar Township
Its 11,154 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in 97% of Pennsylvania towns.
39 miles of trail in 7 parks and preserves. At 1.0 miles per square mile, Lamar Township’s trail density is against 0.4 in Pennsylvania’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bald Eagle State Forest | 31.8 mi | 8,420 |
| 2. State Game Lands Number 295 | 3.9 mi | 1,552 |
| 3. McElhattan Reservoir | 0.8 mi | 94 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Lamar Township’s grade for schools is a C+
One of its 5 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| C/O Mahlon Lapp PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 23 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Lamar Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Lamar Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 19° and about 30 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Lamar Township faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $605 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on. 76 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 12 properties have flooded more than once.
The FEMA risk score in Lamar Township is 67 of 100. Since 1978, 76 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Lamar Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About one in ten working residents works right in Lamar Township
Lamar Township has about as many jobs (952) as working residents, but only 111 people both live and work here. Jobs based here grew from 575 in 2013 to 952.
Most working residents leave Lamar Township for work: only 10% work in town. Since 2013, Lamar Township has added 377 jobs, to 952 in 2023. Lamar Township’s average trip to work is 23 minutes.
| Lamar Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $92,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 10% | 6.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Lamar Township trails 58% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,693 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lamar Township’s, it is less healthy than 76%, so it trails even them.
Lamar Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 19% of Lamar Township adults smoke cigarettes.
| Lamar Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 36% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Lamar Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 7.4% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.7% | 7.7% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.9% | 7.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A home in Lamar Township sells for about $295K at the median
84% of households own their home in Lamar Township.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Lamar Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Lamar Township; the nearest are
About 6 of every 100 Lamar Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
About Lamar Township
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US
Lamar is a census-designated place in Porter Township in southern Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 562. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 64 in southern Clinton County and is bordered on the west by Nittany in Walker Township, Centre County. PA 64 leads northeast 1 mile (2 km) to Exit 173 on Interstate 80 and 11 miles (18 km) to Lock Haven, the Clinton County seat, and southwest through Nittany 23 miles (37 km) to State College. The community is named for Revolutionary War Major Marien Lamar, who was killed in the Battle of Paoli, as stated in the "History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania" by John Blair Linn. M…
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- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 795 ft
- ZIP code
- 16848
Lamar Township’s neighbors
8 towns share a border with Lamar Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamar Township | #922 | C− | B− | — | C+ | C+ |
| Logan Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bald Eagle Township | — | — | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
| Castanea Township | — | — | A− | — | C+ | C |
| Porter Township | — | — | B+ | — | C+ | C+ |
| Wayne Township | — | — | B− | — | C+ | C |
| Beech Creek Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Greene Township | — | — | B− | — | C+ | C+ |
Bald Eagle Township, Castanea Township, Porter Township, Wayne Township and Greene Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lamar Township, Bald Eagle Township, Castanea Township, Porter Township, Wayne Township and Greene Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Logan Township and Beech Creek Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Lamar Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Lamar Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lamar Township, PA a good place to live?
Lamar Township grades C− overall, better than 25% of U.S. towns and #922 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ for health and C+ for schools.
Is Lamar Township, PA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $248,000, 14% 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 B−.