Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
2 of its places are on the National Register of Historic Places. 2,614 people call this town in Pennsylvania home.
West Chillisquaque Township’s strongest is cost of living: a typical home costs about $122K, 2 years of the Sunbury area’s $62K median household income. At B overall, West Chillisquaque Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns and ranks 603rd of 1032 in Pennsylvania. Add schools to its strengths — its schools outperform 71% of the state's. What counts against it is health (C): residents are less healthy than 67% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Walkability is weaker too (C). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. Hazard risk is weaker too: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than nearly two thirds of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Its National Register listings include Sodom Schoolhouse and Col. James Cameron House.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · schools, state test and graduation results · health, CDC PLACES · FEMA National Risk Index · National Register of Historic Places.
Where West Chillisquaque Township beats most towns.
Where West Chillisquaque 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 West Chillisquaque Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 1 old photo or paper and 6 maps from 1893 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in West Chillisquaque 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 West Chillisquaque Township.
West Chillisquaque Township is healthier than towns with similar incomes, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding) and has lost a quarter or more of its jobs in ten years.
Jobs based here fell from 785 in 2013 to 478.
The top destinations are Milton (12%), Mahoning Township (7%) and Kelly Township (5%). Just 3% of West Chillisquaque Township’s working residents have a job in town. Employers in West Chillisquaque Township shed 307 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 478. The average trip to work for West Chillisquaque Township comes to 20 minutes, against 26 minutes in Pennsylvania’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns.
| West Chillisquaque Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $51,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.2% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 6,240 U.S. towns with household incomes like West Chillisquaque Township’s, it is healthier than 67%, so that grade isn’t only a matter of income.
For adults in West Chillisquaque Township, the share who report frequent mental distress is 17%. Nearly a fifth of West Chillisquaque Township adults smoke cigarettes, above both the Pennsylvania town median (16%) and the median of U.S. towns (14%). In West Chillisquaque Township, 15% of adults report frequent physical distress, and 37% have high blood pressure.
| West Chillisquaque Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| What stands out | West Chillisquaque Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 8.1% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.7% | 7.7% |
| More smokers | 19.1% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The range runs from 20° on a January night to 85° on a July afternoon, with about 29 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 89% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $488 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on. 155 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 23 properties have flooded more than once.
FEMA puts 83% of West Chillisquaque Township’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding. The FEMA hazard score locally is 66 of 100. The town has had 155 paid flood insurance claims since 1979.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In West Chillisquaque Township, the concentration of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile. 2.6 miles of trail.
| West Chillisquaque Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2.1% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around West Chillisquaque Township. Close and well known come first.
40 mi State parkRicketts Glen State Park
7 mi MuseumFort Augusta
37 mi State parkWorlds End State Park
40 mi MuseumLittle Buffalo State Park
32 mi MuseumPiper Aviation MuseumRicketts Glen State Park: en:User:Msitler, Public domain · Fort Augusta: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Worlds End State Park: Nicholas, CC BY 2.0 · Little Buffalo State Park: Ben Winslow, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Piper Aviation Museum: User:Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 4.0
2 within 15 miles of the center of West Chillisquaque Township
About 2 of every 100 West Chillisquaque Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
2 places in West Chillisquaque Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
3 notable people were born in West Chillisquaque Township.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
West Chillisquaque Township is a township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population at the 2010 Census was 2,627, a decline from the figure of 2,846 tabulated in 2000.
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7 towns share a border with West Chillisquaque Township.
Lewisburg next door grades higher for schools (A+ to West Chillisquaque Township’s B+) and lower for cost of living (B− to A−).
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Chillisquaque Township | #603 | B | A− | — | B+ | C |
| Milton | #823 | C+ | C+ | B | B+ | C |
| East Chillisquaque Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kelly Township | #303 | A− | B− | — | A+ | A− |
| East Buffalo Township | #242 | A | D | — | A+ | A− |
| Lewisburg | #180 | A | B− | — | A+ | A− |
| Montandon | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Turbot Township | — | — | C | — | B+ | C |
Turbot Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. West Chillisquaque Township, Kelly Township, East Buffalo Township, Lewisburg and Turbot Township report no FBI crime data of their own. East Chillisquaque Township and Montandon aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare West Chillisquaque Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. West Chillisquaque Township grades B overall, better than 58% of U.S. towns and #603 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C for health and B+ for schools.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.
West Chillisquaque Township has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places. 3 notable people were born here, including Herbert Wesley Cummings and David Fullmer.
