Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 20,755, settled in 1859.
Safety is its strong suit — it reports less crime per resident than 99% of U.S. towns. The catch is cost of living (C): the typical home is worth about $301K, 4 years of the Pittsburgh metro’s $76K median household income. Overall, that makes an A+, good for 44th of 1032 in Pennsylvania. Set against the rest, it does better than 98% of U.S. towns. Bushy Run Battlefield is on the National Register of Historic Places. Only 83 of Pennsylvania’s 1,751 towns score higher on hazard risk. Only 8 of the 529 Pennsylvania towns we compare have a lower level of property crime than Penn Township. The median household earns $113K.
Figures: FBI crime data, 2025 · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · National Register of Historic Places.
Where Penn Township beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| McCullough El Sch | K–5 | 448 |
| Sunrise El Sch | K–5 | 412 |
| Harrison Park El Sch | K–5 | 409 |
Where Penn 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 Penn Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Bushy Run Battlefield is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 820 in 1870, a peak of 1,081 in 1940, 435 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2012 and 3 maps from 1904 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Penn Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw34 mi MuseumFallingwater
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
11 mi Theme parkKennywood
20 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
19 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
18 mi Stadium & arenaPPG Paints ArenaFallingwater: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Acrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Penn 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 Penn Township.
Penn Township has schools in the top 5% of Pennsylvania and owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it has a long record of flood insurance claims.
Reported crimes fell from 22 to 0 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings. Violent crime is rare: 0 reported in 2025, 0 per 1,000 residents.
No violent crime was reported in Penn Township. This Pennsylvania town recorded no property offenses.
| Penn Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 5.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its A+ ranks #20 of the 1,037 Pennsylvania towns we grade for schools.
Public schools: Penn-Trafford SD. The largest public high school is Penn Trafford HS, with 1,167 students. Three of the 6 schools are below, and why each made the list.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn MSLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 518 | A− |
| Penn Trafford HSLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,167 | A+ |
| McCullough El SchTop results in townGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 448 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
276 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 33 properties have flooded more than once.
Penn Township’s FEMA risk score stands at 4 of 100. It has had 276 paid flood insurance claims since 1978. FEMA puts four fifths of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The biggest place to walk is Bushy Run Battlefield Park, 235 acres with 10.7 miles of trail. Trails run 22 miles in 7 parks and preserves. Penn Township’s trail density stands at 0.7 miles per square mile, above both Pennsylvania’s towns (0.4) and U.S. towns (0.4).
| Penn Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2.3% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bushy Run Battlefield Park | 10.7 mi | 235 |
| 2. Municipal Park | 1.2 mi | 60 |
| 3. Flinn Reserve Expansion | 1 mi | 58 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Just 9% of Penn Township’s working residents have a job in town. The town’s average trip to work stands at 31 minutes, above both the Pennsylvania town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). 5.2% of Penn Township residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Pittsburgh (19%), Monroeville (6%) and Murrysville (5%).
| Penn Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $113,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5.2% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 14% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 6,729 U.S. towns with household incomes like Penn Township’s, it is less healthy than 59%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
5.7% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Penn Township. CDC measures, 26 in all: Penn Township beats Pennsylvania on 2 and trails on 2. In Penn Township, 15% of adults report frequent mental distress, and 33% have obesity.
| Penn Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 79% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 35% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 38% | 36% |
| What stands out | Penn Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 10.6% | 14.5% |
| More adults getting cholesterol checked | 87.8% | 85.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.2% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 21° and about 25 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
8 within 15 miles of the center of Penn Township
About 5 of every 100 Penn Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
Penn is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Penn had a population of 435. The borough was named for Pennsylvania founder William Penn.
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10 towns share a border with Penn Township.
Jeannette next door grades lower for schools (C to Penn Township’s A+) and higher for cost of living (A to C).
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Township · Penn | #44 | A+ | C | A+ | A+ | B+ |
| Hempfield Township | #104 | A+ | B+ | — | A | B+ |
| Level Green | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Murrysville | #41 | A+ | C− | A+ | A+ | A |
| Jeannette | #839 | C | A | C | C | C |
| Monroeville | #636 | B | C+ | C | B− | A− |
| North Huntingdon Township | #13 | A+ | B+ | A− | A+ | A− |
| Manor | #9 | A+ | B | A+ | A+ | A |
Hempfield Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Level Green isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Penn and Penn Township are one community, graded once. Compare Penn Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Penn Township grades A+ overall, better than 98% of U.S. towns and #44 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B+ for health, A+ for safety and A+ 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 C.
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