Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,884.
Sparta Township’s best subject grade is a B+ for schools; its weakest is a D− for incomes. 34% of residents live below the poverty line in Sparta Township, above both the Pennsylvania town median (7.6%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). Only 14 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns score lower on incomes. Residents are less healthy than 87% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Only 41 of Pennsylvania’s 1,751 towns score lower on the outdoors. The biggest park or preserve is State Game Lands Number 144, at 390 acres. Sparta Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Sparta Township beats most towns.
Where Sparta 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 Sparta Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,740 in 2000, 1,914 in 2020. The archive holds 7 old photos and papers going back to 1850 and 4 maps from 1929 on.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Sparta 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 Sparta Township.
One of its 10 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Meadow School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 29 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
24% of adults smoke cigarettes in Sparta Township, against 17% in Pennsylvania’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns. 31% of adults get no exercise outside work in Sparta Township. Sparta Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 15.
| Sparta Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 17% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 14% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 16% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Sparta Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 10.3% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 12% | 7.7% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 22.3% | 14.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 87% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most working residents leave Sparta Township for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Sparta Township has added 77 jobs, to 138 in 2023. The median household income in Sparta Township is $58,000.
| Sparta Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $58,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.7% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Sparta Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Sparta Township’s July high is 80°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0.9 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 144 | — | 390 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
1 within 15 miles of the center of Sparta Township
About 1 of every 100 Sparta Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Sparta Township is a township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,914 at the 2020 census, up from 1,832 at the 2010 census. The Township surrounds Spartansburg, a borough of a few hundred people.
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4 towns share a border with Sparta Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sparta Township | — | — | B | — | B+ | D |
| Bloomfield Township | — | — | B+ | — | B+ | C− |
| Concord Township | — | — | A | — | B+ | C− |
| Rome Township | — | — | B+ | — | C | D |
| Spring Creek Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Sparta Township, Bloomfield Township, Concord Township and Rome Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Sparta Township, Bloomfield Township, Concord Township and Rome Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Spring Creek Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Sparta Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
The typical home is worth about $169,000. That is 2.8 years of the area's median household income ($60,476 across the Meadville, PA area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.