Mahoning Township is a

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Montour County Montour County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,136. Its county seat is Danville. The county is named for Andrew Montour, a prominent Mét ...

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, United States.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of 8.9 square miles (22.9 km²), of which 8.2 square miles (21.3 km²) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km²) (7.00%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 4,263 people, 1,466 households, and 963 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 1,542 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 93.97%

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, 1.92%

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, 0.02% Native American, 2.72%

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, 0.61% from

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, and 0.75% from two or more races.

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of any race were 1.71% of the population. There were 1,466 households, out of which 29.4% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 54.6% were

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living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.3% were non-families. 32.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.8% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.92. In the township the population was spread out, with 22.3% under the age of eighteen, 5.2% from eighteen to twenty-four, 22.3% from twenty-five to forty-four, 24.1% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 26.0% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-five years. For every one hundred females, there were 78.2 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 72.0 males. The median income for a household in the township was $43,995, and the median income for a family was $55,536. Males had a median income of $46,016 compared with that of $31,078 for females. The

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for the township was $24,099. Roughly 2.4% of families and 8.3% of the population were living below the

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, including 5.7% of those under the age of eighteen and 18.5% of those who were aged sixty-five or over.

References

External links

Mahoning Township, Montour County, Pennsylvania
(official website) {{authority control Populated places established in 1775 Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area Townships in Montour County, Pennsylvania Townships in Pennsylvania