Oliver TownshipPA
A town of 2,044.
Is Oliver Township a good place to live?
The best of Oliver Township’s subject grades is an A− for cost of living; the weakest is a C− for hazard risk. 28% of residents are 65 or older in Oliver Township, above both the Pennsylvania town median (21%) and the median of U.S. towns (18%). The biggest place to walk is State Game Lands Number 113, 401 acres with 2.4 miles of trail. Oliver Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
94% of working residents leave Oliver Township for work
Where Oliver Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Oliver Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Oliver Township is from typical.
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Moving to Oliver Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Oliver 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 Oliver Township.
Most of Oliver Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.3 jobs for each of them
The median household income for Oliver Township comes to $63,000, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at $81,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000. Only 6% of working residents stay in Oliver Township for work; the rest commute out. Jobs in Oliver Township grew by 75 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 267. The typical journey to work for Oliver Township comes to 29 minutes.
| Oliver Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $63,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Oliver Township’s public schools trail 67% of Pennsylvania districts
Mifflin County SD runs its public schools. One of its 3 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Oliver Township’s only public school teaches 254 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strodes Mills El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–3 | Grades K–3 | 254 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Health in Oliver Township trails 69% of U.S. towns
Just over a fifth of Oliver Township adults say their health is fair or poor. The share of adults in Oliver Township who smoke cigarettes: 19%.
| Oliver Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 19% | 19% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 34% | 35% |
| What stands out | Oliver Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8.1% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.3% | 7.7% |
| More adults with heart disease | 9.4% | 7.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest natural risk in Oliver Township is inland flooding, at a high overall level
Oliver Township’s natural-hazard score from FEMA stands at 70 of 100. Just over four fifths of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 6%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Oliver Township: four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 85° and January nights of 21°, with about 26 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Open space protected for good: 5.1% of Oliver Township
Trails run 2.9 miles in 1 park or preserve. Oliver Township’s trail network density comes in at 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Oliver Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.1% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 113 | 2.4 mi | 401 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Beaver Stadium and 18 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Oliver Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaBeaver Stadium
36 mi National MonumentCarlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument
16 mi LakeRaystown Lake
21 mi Stadium & arenaBryce Jordan Center
35 mi Theme parkLakemont Park
39 mi National Historic SiteAllegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site163K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Beaver Stadium: Sbvr6 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Raystown Lake: Tex Jobe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain · Bryce Jordan Center: Robert J. La Verghetta, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lakemont Park: Bhakta Dano. Original uploader was Oldano at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site: Matthew A. Lynn; Original uploader was Mosamiazaz at en.wikipedia, Public domain
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Everything we know about Oliver Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Oliver Township; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Oliver Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About Oliver Township
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Oliver Township is a township in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,060 at the time of the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 35 sq mi
Oliver Township’s neighbors
7 towns share a border with Oliver Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Township | — | — | A− | — | C | C |
| Granville Township | #947 | C− | B+ | C+ | C | D |
| Bratton Township | — | — | A− | — | C | C− |
| Menno Township | — | — | B | — | C | D |
| McVeytown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brady Township | — | — | A | — | B− | C |
| Wayne Township | — | — | B+ | — | C | C |
| Union Township | #946 | C− | B | — | C | D |
Oliver Township, Bratton Township, Menno Township, Brady Township and Wayne Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Oliver Township, Bratton Township, Menno Township, Brady Township, Wayne Township and Union Township report no FBI crime data of their own. McVeytown isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Oliver Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Oliver Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Oliver Township, PA expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.