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Pine Grove Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, 834th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its schools outperform 62% of the state's. A typical home there costs about $236K, 3.5 years of the Pottsville area’s $68K median household income. 25% of the land in Pine Grove Township is conserved, above both the Pennsylvania town median (8.2%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is State Game Lands Number 80, at 2,444 acres.
Where Pine Grove Township beats most towns.
Swatara FurnaceWhere Pine Grove 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 Pine Grove Township is from typical.
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Census counts: 646 in 1850, 2,054 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2009 and 5 maps from 1892 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pine Grove 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 Pine Grove Township.
12 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Swatara State Park | 2.7 mi | 911 |
| 2. Sweet Arrow Lake County Park | 1.5 mi | 45 |
| 3. State Game Lands Number 80 | 0.9 mi | 2,444 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most working residents leave Pine Grove Township for work: only 9% work in town. At 33 minutes, Pine Grove Township’s average trip to work is against 26 minutes in Pennsylvania’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. 3% of residents live below the poverty line in Pine Grove Township.
| Pine Grove Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 3% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 9.8% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 8.8% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Pine Grove Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 20° and about 24 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 $394 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on. 86 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 13 properties have flooded more than once.
The FEMA risk score in Pine Grove Township is 63 of 100. Since 1978, 86 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Pine Grove Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Pine Grove Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 18% of Pine Grove Township adults smoke cigarettes.
| Pine Grove Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 38% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 35% | 35% |
| What stands out | Pine Grove Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.5% | 7.7% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.8% | 7.4% |
| More adults with arthritis | 35.9% | 30.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1 within 15 miles of the center of Pine Grove Township
About 2 of every 100 Pine Grove Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
Pine Grove is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 2,054. Pine Grove Area School District, serving students from three municipalities and multiple surrounding townships, is located in the borough.
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3 towns share a border with Pine Grove Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove Township | #834 | C+ | B− | — | B | B− |
| Bethel Township | #329 | A− | C | A+ | B+ | B− |
| Washington Township | #684 | B− | B− | — | B | B− |
| Tremont Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Pine Grove Township and Washington Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Tremont Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Pine Grove Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Pine Grove Township grades C+ overall, better than 36% of U.S. towns and #834 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B− for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.