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A town of 1,551, settled in 1869. Public schools that outperform most of Pennsylvania.
The best of Leet Township’s subject grades are an A+ for schools, an A for health, and an A− for incomes; the weakest is a D for hazard risk. On hazard risk, just 46 of Pennsylvania’s 1,751 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. Only 89 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns score higher on health. Only 107 of Pennsylvania’s 1,751 towns score higher on the outdoors. The biggest place to walk is Walker Park, 67 acres with 1.2 miles of trail. Leet Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Leet Township beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Watson Institute | PK–12 | 223 |
| Widest gap | Leet Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8% | 14.5% |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Leet Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,646 in 1970, 1,620 in 2020. The archive holds 3 old photos and papers going back to 1850 and 5 maps from 1906 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Leet Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
14 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
14 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
15 mi Stadium & arenaPPG Paints Arena
22 mi Theme parkKennywood
14 mi LandmarkFort PittAcrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · PPG Paints Arena: Jleedev, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · Fort Pitt: Downtown_Pittsburgh_May_2008.jpg: Allie Caufield derivative work: GrapedApe (tal, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Leet 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 Leet Township.
Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watson Institute PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 223 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
13% of adults report frequent mental distress in Leet Township, below both the Pennsylvania town median (16%) and the median of U.S. towns (17%). 11% of Leet Township adults report frequent physical distress. Leet Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 15 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Leet Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 38% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 35% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Leet Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8% | 14.5% |
| Fewer smokers | 11.1% | 15.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.6% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 83 of 100, Leet Township’s FEMA risk score is against 30 of 100 in Pennsylvania’s towns and 44 of 100 across U.S. towns. Since 1990, 23 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Leet Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Leet Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 21° and about 20 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most working residents leave Leet Township for work: only 2% work in town. 21% of workers work from home in Leet Township. Since 2013, Leet Township has added 349 jobs, to 592 in 2023.
| Leet Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 21% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $93,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 6.3% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Leet Township's reported crime rate is well below Pennsylvania's. Leet Township’s property crime rate is 2.6 per 1,000 residents. Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2024.
| Leet Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 2.6 per 1,000 residents | 6.8 | 11.5 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2024) | 1.3 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.7 |
FBI crime data, 2024 · crimes reported to police
1.3 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The trail density in Leet Township is 0.9 miles per square mile.
| Leet Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.9 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 7% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Walker Park | 1.2 mi | 67 |
| 2. Oak Street Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Pennsylvania average. Leet Township has lost 4.6% of its people since 2020, down to 1,551 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 40% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 35% across Pennsylvania.
| Leet Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 40% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 42.3 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 20% | 21% | 18% |
Somewhere between 43% and 72% women
The Census survey reached too few of Leet Township’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±14.2 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Leet Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.4% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.2% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.5% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.8% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.3% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.3% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.4% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 11.1% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1.9% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24.9% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 23.1% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.4% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.6% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 15.2% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,600, single groups can be off by several points
11 within 15 miles of the center of Leet Township
About 3 of every 100 Leet Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Leet Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,620 at the 2020 census. Leet Township includes the neighborhood of Fair Oaks and Leet Township's fire department includes the name "Fair Oaks Volunteer Fire Department".
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6 towns share a border with Leet Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leet Township | — | — | C+ | — | A+ | A |
| Ambridge Heights | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Harmony Township | #328 | A− | A− | B+ | C | B |
| Leetsdale | — | — | B+ | — | A+ | A− |
| Ambridge | #959 | C− | B+ | D | C | C |
| Bell Acres | — | — | C | — | A+ | A+ |
| Edgeworth | — | — | C− | — | A+ | A+ |
Leet Township, Leetsdale, Bell Acres and Edgeworth have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Leet Township, Leetsdale, Bell Acres and Edgeworth report no FBI crime data of their own. Ambridge Heights isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Leet Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Public schools that outperform most of Pennsylvania.
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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