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A town of 4,730.
Pine Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades A− overall, ranked 333rd of 1032 in Pennsylvania, 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 rank ahead of 76% of Pennsylvania towns. A typical home there costs about $285K, 4.7 years of the Hermitage area’s $60K median household income. On the outdoors, just 54 of Pennsylvania’s 1,751 towns do worse. Pine Township has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Jeremiah Sturgeon Chapel. 94% of households own their home in Pine Township, above both the Pennsylvania town median (78%) and the median of U.S. towns (73%).
Where Pine Township beats most towns.
Where Pine 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 Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 4,493 in 2000, 4,808 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2014 and 6 maps from 1913 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Pine 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 Township.
Pine Township draws workers from Grove City and beyond, but it has little public open land.
3,114 jobs are based in Pine Township, 1.7 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
Most working residents leave Pine Township for work: only 15% work in town. Since 2013, Pine Township has lost 282 jobs, to 3,114 in 2023. The top destinations are Grove City (18%), Springfield Township (4%) and Pittsburgh (3%).
| Pine Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 15% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $94,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 84% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Pine Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Pine Township’s July high is 82°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Pine Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 1 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 30% of Pine Township adults have high blood pressure.
| Pine Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.5% | 11% | 12% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 35% |
| What stands out | Pine Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 9.5% | 11.6% |
| More adults in frequent mental distress | 18.7% | 16.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Pennsylvania average. 23% of residents are 65 or older in Pine Township. 36% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 35% across Pennsylvania.
| Pine Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.3 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 23% | 21% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 29% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 22% | 20% | 22% |
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Pine Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.4% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.3% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.8% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 7.1% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.3% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 18.7% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.1% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.2% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 38.4% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.9% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.2% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.4% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,700, single groups can be off by several points
Just 9 of its 16,354 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Pine Township itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.1% of the land in Pine Township is conserved. 0.7 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Hunter Farm Park | — | 3 |
| 2. Grove City Memorial Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
3 within 15 miles of the center of Pine Township
About 6 of every 100 Pine Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Pine Township is a township in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,808 at the 2020 census, down from 5,150 in 2010.
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4 towns share a border with Pine Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Township | #333 | A− | B− | — | A− | B |
| Grove City | #126 | A | B+ | A− | A− | B+ |
| Liberty Township | — | — | B− | — | A− | B |
| Wolf Creek Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Findley Township | #646 | B− | B− | — | A− | C+ |
Liberty Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Pine Township, Liberty Township and Findley Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Wolf Creek Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Pine Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Pine Township grades A− overall, better than 80% of U.S. towns and #333 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B for health 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 B−.