Burnside Township is a township in

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, United States. It is part of the State College,

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. It is located approximately at .''http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=275439'' Burnside County Profile The CDP of Pine Glen is within Burnside Township. The population was 417 at the 2020 census.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.87%, is water. Burnside Township is bordered by

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to the northwest,

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to the north, Curtin Township to the east and Snow Shoe Township to the southeast.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 410 people, 157 households, and 114 families residing in the township. The

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was 4.8 people per square mile (1.9/km). There were 325 housing units at an average density of 3.8/sq mi (1.5/km). The racial makeup of the township was 99.27%

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, 0.24%

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, and 0.49% from two or more races. There were 157 households, out of which 26.8% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 63.1% were married couples living together, 6.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.8% were non-families. 21.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.5% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.07. In the township the population was spread out, with 22.4% under the age of eighteen, 8.8% from eighteen to twenty-four, 28.0% from twenty-five to forty-four, 27.6% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 13.2% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-nine years. For every one hundred females, there were 102.0 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 109.2 males. The median income for a household in the township was $31,786, and the median income for a family was $41,786. Males had a median income of $26,250 compared with that of $18,438 for females. The

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for the township was $21,195. Roughly 10.5% of families and 14.0% of the population were living below the

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, including 22.2% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 14.7% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1792 Townships in Centre County, Pennsylvania Townships in Pennsylvania