Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,250.
Wheatfield Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $243K, 3 years of the Harrisburg metro’s $81K median household income. It grades B− overall, 675th of 1032 graded towns in Pennsylvania. On walkability, just 38 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns do worse. The biggest park or preserve is State Game Lands Number 256, at 931 acres.
Where Wheatfield 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 Wheatfield Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 5 maps from 1907 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wheatfield Township. Close and well known come first.
14 mi National MonumentCarlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument
25 mi Theme parkHersheypark3.0M visitors a year
24 mi Stadium & arenaHersheypark Stadium
24 mi MuseumHershey's Chocolate World
25 mi Stadium & arenaHersheypark Arena
28 mi State parkPine Grove Furnace State ParkCarlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Hersheypark: Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Hersheypark Stadium: 45BearsFan, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hershey's Chocolate World: Phillyfan0419, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hersheypark Arena: Hersheyarena4ever at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Pine Grove Furnace State Park: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wheatfield 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 Wheatfield Township.
Wheatfield Township sends most of its workers to Harrisburg and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Wheatfield Township has 170 jobs for its 1,411 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Wheatfield Township for work: only 2% work in town. Wheatfield Township’s average trip to work is 31 minutes, above both Pennsylvania’s towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Since 2013, Wheatfield Township has added 88 jobs, to 170 in 2023.
| Wheatfield Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $94,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 10% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Wheatfield Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 23° and about 24 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.3 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Wheatfield Township’s trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile, below both the Pennsylvania town median (0.5) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4).
| Wheatfield Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 9.9% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. State Game Lands Number 256 | 0.2 mi | 931 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Against the 9,398 U.S. towns with household incomes like Wheatfield Township’s, it is less healthy than 77%, so it trails even them.
Wheatfield Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 19% of Wheatfield Township adults smoke cigarettes.
| Wheatfield Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 16% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Wheatfield Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.7% | 7.7% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.8% | 7.4% |
| More adults with arthritis | 35.8% | 30.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 52% of U.S. communities. Since 1984, 30 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Wheatfield Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
4 within 15 miles of the center of Wheatfield Township
About 2 of every 100 Wheatfield Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Wheatfield Township is a township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,194 at the 2020 census.
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6 towns share a border with Wheatfield Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatfield Township | #675 | B− | A− | — | B | C+ |
| Penn Township | #679 | B− | B | — | B | C+ |
| Miller Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Carroll Township | #861 | C | B− | — | B− | C |
| Centre Township | #654 | B− | B+ | — | B− | C+ |
| Rye Township | — | — | B | — | B | B+ |
| Watts Township | — | — | B+ | — | B | C+ |
Rye Township and Watts Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Wheatfield Township, Penn Township, Carroll Township, Centre Township, Rye Township and Watts Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Miller Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wheatfield Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Wheatfield Township grades B− overall, better than 52% of U.S. towns and #675 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
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−.
