Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Saville Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, ranked 776th of 1032 in Pennsylvania, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $83K. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: residents are less healthy than 61% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $279K, 3.4 years of the Harrisburg metro’s $81K median household income. Saville Township’s average trip to work is 47 minutes, above both Pennsylvania’s towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). The biggest place to walk is State Game Lands Number 88, 1,675 acres with 3.6 miles of trail. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 68% of U.S. towns.
Where Saville Township beats most towns.
Where Saville 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 Saville Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 1 old photo or paper and 4 maps from 1930 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Saville 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 Saville Township.
One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Valley Amish School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 22 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Saville Township has 299 jobs for its 1,092 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 46.9 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Most working residents leave Saville Township for work: only 6% work in town. Jobs based in Saville Township grew to 299 in 2023, 74 more than in 2013. 4.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Saville Township.
| Saville Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.5% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 8.4% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Saville Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 22° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
20% of Saville Township adults smoke cigarettes. Saville Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 4. 19% of Saville Township adults binge drink.
| Saville Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| What stands out | Saville Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8.4% | 5.8% |
| More smokers | 19.8% | 15.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.4% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
4.4 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves. The trail density in Saville Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Saville Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 8.6% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 88 | 3.6 mi | 1,675 |
| 2. Tuscarora State Forest | — | 652 |
| 3. James C. Nelson Wild Area | — | 652 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 55% of U.S. communities. Since 1996, 11 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Saville Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Saville Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaBeaver Stadium
18 mi National MonumentCarlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument
38 mi Theme parkHersheypark3.0M visitors a year
35 mi LakeRaystown Lake
38 mi Stadium & arenaHersheypark Stadium
38 mi MuseumHershey's Chocolate WorldBeaver Stadium: Sbvr6 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Hersheypark: Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Raystown Lake: Tex Jobe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain · Hersheypark Stadium: 45BearsFan, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hershey's Chocolate World: Phillyfan0419, CC BY-SA 3.0
None within 15 miles of Saville Township; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Saville Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
2 places in Saville Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Saville Township is a second-class township in a mountainous part of Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township had a total population of 2,598. It was founded in 1817, dividing from Tyrone Township while the area was still part of Cumberland County. It is served by two major roads, PA 74, locally called Veterans Way, and PA 17, called the Tuscorara Path. The county office is at 3954 Veterans Way, in Elliottsburg, in the far southern part of the township. The area is overwhelmingly agricultural, with small population centers in Ickesburg and the hamlet of Saville.
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5 towns share a border with Saville Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saville Township | #776 | C+ | B− | — | B− | C+ |
| Centre Township | #654 | B− | B+ | — | B− | C+ |
| Spruce Hill Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Northeast Madison Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Turbett Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tyrone Township | — | — | A | — | B− | C |
Tyrone Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Saville Township, Centre Township and Tyrone Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Spruce Hill Township, Northeast Madison Township and Turbett Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Saville Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Saville Township grades C+ overall, better than 42% of U.S. towns and #776 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ for health and B− 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−.
