Old Lycoming TownshipPA
A town of 4,924, settled in 1773.
Is Old Lycoming Township a good place to live?
Old Lycoming Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, 917th of 1032 graded towns in Pennsylvania, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $63K. Its lowest everyday mark is in schools: its public schools trail 66% of Pennsylvania towns on state tests and graduation. A typical home there costs about $199K, 3.1 years of the Williamsport metro’s $64K median household income. 11% of residents are under 18 in Old Lycoming Township, below both the Pennsylvania town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). Only 120 of Pennsylvania’s 1,717 towns score lower on civic life.
95% of working residents leave Old Lycoming Township for work
Where Old Lycoming Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Old Lycoming Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Old Lycoming Township is from typical.
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Moving to Old Lycoming Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Old Lycoming 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 Old Lycoming Township.
Old Lycoming Township is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has commutes shorter than most of Pennsylvania, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding).
Old Lycoming Township has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The average commute for its 2,285 working residents takes 19.5 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Half of commuters travel less than 6 miles. The average commute for Old Lycoming Township comes to 20 minutes. Just 5% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The top destinations are Williamsport (34%), Loyalsock Township (9%) and Montoursville (2%).
| Old Lycoming Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $63,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.1% | 6.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a high hazard risk in Old Lycoming Township: inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $347 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on. 552 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 82 properties have flooded more than once.
The national flood insurance program has paid 552 claims in Old Lycoming Township since 1978. Its natural-hazard score from FEMA stands at 68 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 87% come from inland flooding. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Old Lycoming Township after 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2024.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Old Lycoming Township
In July, afternoons reach 85°; in January, nights fall to 19°, and about 36 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Old Lycoming Township trails 61% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,528 U.S. towns with household incomes like Old Lycoming Township’s, it is healthier than 58%, so its C+ isn’t only a matter of income.
In Old Lycoming Township, nearly a fifth of adults report frequent mental distress. Among adults here, 18% smoke cigarettes and 39% sleep under 7 hours.
| Old Lycoming Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 38% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| What stands out | Old Lycoming Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8.4% | 5.8% |
| More adults in frequent mental distress | 18.8% | 16.4% |
| Fewer adults getting cholesterol checked | 81.4% | 85.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Protected land: 0.8% of Old Lycoming Township
1.1 miles of trail. Old Lycoming Township’s trail network density comes in at 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Old Lycoming Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Old Lycoming Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Old Lycoming Township
About 5 of every 100 Old Lycoming Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
About Old Lycoming Township
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Old Lycoming Township is a township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,973 at the 2020 census up from 4,938 in 2010. It is part of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Established
- 1773
- Area
- 9.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 791 ft
Old Lycoming Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Old Lycoming Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Lycoming Township | #917 | C | C+ | — | C | C+ |
| Loyalsock Township | #805 | C+ | C− | — | A− | B− |
| Woodward Township | — | — | A− | — | C | C+ |
| Garden View | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lycoming Township | — | — | B+ | — | C | B− |
| Williamsport | #944 | C− | C+ | C+ | C | C |
Woodward Township and Lycoming Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Old Lycoming Township, Loyalsock Township, Woodward Township and Lycoming Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Garden View isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Old Lycoming Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Old Lycoming Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Old Lycoming Township, PA a good place to live?
Old Lycoming Township grades C overall, better than 26% of U.S. towns and #917 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ for health and C for schools.
Is Old Lycoming Township, PA expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.