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A town of 3,113.
Lower Towamensing Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $232K, 2.7 years of the Allentown metro’s $85K median household income. It grades B− overall, 715th of 1032 graded towns in Pennsylvania. Lower Towamensing Township’s average trip to work is 35 minutes, above both Pennsylvania’s towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Little Gap Covered Bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Lower Towamensing 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 Lower Towamensing Township is from typical.
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The archive holds 6 maps from 1922 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lower Towamensing Township. Close and well known come first.
17 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdomin town Ski areaBlue Mountain Resort44 runs · 1,077 ft vertical
16 mi Stadium & arenaPPL Center
21 mi Park & preserveLehigh River
9 mi MuseumAsa Packer Mansion
16 mi State parkHickory Run State ParkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PPL Center: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lehigh River: The original uploader was Malepheasant at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Asa Packer Mansion: Chris18240 (talk), Public domain · Hickory Run State Park: Mtruch, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lower Towamensing 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 Lower Towamensing Township.
Lower Towamensing Township carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding), but it has commutes longer than most of Pennsylvania.
18 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. Lower Towamensing Township’s trail density is 0.8 miles per square mile. State Game Lands Number 168, at 227 acres with 2.3 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Lower Towamensing Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 7.2% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 168 | 2.3 mi | 227 |
| 2. Buckwha Creek Preserve | — | 24 |
| 3. SAP Laser Tag | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by Palmerton Area SD. Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is Palmerton Area HS, with 478 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmerton Area JHSLargest public middle schoolGrades 7–8 | Grades 7–8 | 261 | C+ |
| Palmerton Area HSLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 478 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
The average commute for its 1,470 working residents takes 34.8 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania. Jobs based here grew from 527 in 2013 to 1,012.
Most working residents leave Lower Towamensing Township for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Lower Towamensing Township has added 485 jobs, to 1,012 in 2023. The top destinations are Allentown (6%), Palmerton (6%) and Upper Macungie Township (6%).
| Lower Towamensing Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $69,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.2% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lower Towamensing Township has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 19° and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $574 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Lower Towamensing Township is 64 of 100. Since 1996, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Lower Towamensing Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lower Towamensing Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 5. 19% of Lower Towamensing Township adults smoke cigarettes.
| Lower Towamensing Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 38% | 36% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Lower Towamensing Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8.1% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.6% | 7.7% |
| More smokers | 19.2% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1 within 15 miles of the center of Lower Towamensing Township
About 2 of every 100 Lower Towamensing Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Lower Towamensing Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Lenape Indian tribe name is eponymous and was once applied by the natives to the whole region of Carbon County and bits of the Poconos to the north (Luzerne County) and to Schuylkill County (southwest). The population was 3,228 at the 2010 census.
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9 towns share a border with Lower Towamensing Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Towamensing Township | #715 | B− | B | — | B | C+ |
| Palmerton | #415 | B+ | B+ | A− | B | C |
| Bowmanstown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lehigh Township | #419 | B+ | C | A+ | B+ | B |
| East Penn Township | #869 | C | B | — | B− | B− |
| Towamensing Township | #891 | C | C+ | — | B | C+ |
| Eldred Township | #904 | C | C− | — | B− | B− |
| Moore Township | #389 | A− | B− | — | B+ | B |
Lower Towamensing Township, East Penn Township, Towamensing Township, Eldred Township and Moore Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Bowmanstown isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Lower Towamensing Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lower Towamensing Township grades B− overall, better than 48% of U.S. towns and #715 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ 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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