Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Mount Pleasant Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades A overall, 196th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $94K. It also does better than most on schools: its schools outperform 81% of the state's. A typical home there costs about $313K, 4.1 years of the Pittsburgh metro’s $76K median household income. Mount Pleasant Township’s age of the median resident is 57.9 years, above both the Pennsylvania town median (43.2 years) and the median of U.S. towns (40.5 years). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. Mount Pleasant Township has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Leatherman Covered Bridge and Krepps Covered Bridge.
Where Mount Pleasant Township beats most towns.
Krepps Covered Bridge| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Cherry El Ctr | K–6 | 455 |
| Fort Cherry JSHS | 7–12 | 457 |
Where Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 3,422 in 2000, 3,282 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 1880 and 3 maps from 1904 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mount Pleasant Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
18 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
19 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
24 mi Theme parkKennywood
19 mi Stadium & arenaPPG Paints Arena
10 mi MuseumMeadowcroft RockshelterAcrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · PPG Paints Arena: Jleedev, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Meadowcroft Rockshelter: Lee Paxton, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant Township.
Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is Fort Cherry JSHS, with 457 students. Public schools: Fort Cherry SD.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Cherry El CtrLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 455 | B |
| Fort Cherry JSHSLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 457 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in Mount Pleasant Township than in 82% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Mount Pleasant Township, 5.5% of residents live below the poverty line. Only 8% of working residents stay in Mount Pleasant Township for work; the rest commute out. This Pennsylvania town had 604 jobs in 2023, down 120 from 2013. The average commute here is 27 minutes.
| Mount Pleasant Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.5% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $94,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its widest gap with Pennsylvania is tooth loss: 9.3% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.5% statewide.
Two figures for adults in Mount Pleasant Township: 15% report frequent mental distress, 13% report frequent physical distress. For adults in the town, the share who binge drink is 20%.
| Mount Pleasant Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Mount Pleasant Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.3% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults in fair or poor health | 16.4% | 18.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
College graduates make up 32% of adults 25 and older, against 35% across Pennsylvania. People 65 and older are 32% of residents (20% statewide); children under 18 are 14% of residents (21% statewide).
| Mount Pleasant Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 14% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 29% | 29% |
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Mount Pleasant Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.8% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 4% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 3.7% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.6% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 8% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 7.5% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 23.8% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 24.4% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.1% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.5% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 36.2% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.4% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.7% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.8% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.5% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,400, single groups can be off by several points
The July high for Mount Pleasant Township comes to 83°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
For Mount Pleasant Township, the trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile. Across 2 parks and preserves: 2.4 miles of trail.
| Mount Pleasant Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Hickory Park | — | 10 |
| 2. Southview Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
3 within 15 miles of the center of Mount Pleasant Township
About 2 of every 100 Mount Pleasant Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
2 places in Mount Pleasant Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Mount Pleasant Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 3,282.
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9 towns share a border with Mount Pleasant Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Township | #196 | A | B | — | A− | B+ |
| Hopewell Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Robinson Township | — | — | B+ | — | A− | B− |
| Chartiers Township | #127 | A | B | A | A− | B |
| Smith Township | #375 | A− | A− | A | B+ | C |
| Cross Creek Township | — | — | B+ | — | B | C+ |
| Cecil Township | #117 | A | C− | A+ | A | A− |
| Westland | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Robinson Township and Cross Creek Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mount Pleasant Township, Robinson Township and Cross Creek Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Hopewell Township and Westland aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Mount Pleasant Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Mount Pleasant Township grades A overall, better than 90% of U.S. towns and #196 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B+ for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
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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