Snyder Township is a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
in
Jefferson County,
Pennsylvania
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, United States. The population was 2,366 at the 2020 census.
It was named for Governor of Pennsylvania
Simon Snyder.
History
The
Redferd Segers House at Crenshaw was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2000.
Geography
The township is in northeastern Jefferson County, bordered to the northeast by
Elk County and to the southeast by
Clearfield County
Clearfield County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 80,562. The county seat is Clearfield, and the largest city is DuBois. The county was created in 1804 and later organized in 1822.
...
. It surrounds the borough of
Brockway. Unincorporated communities in the township include
Crenshaw Crenshaw may refer to:
Places in the United States
*Crenshaw, Los Angeles
**Crenshaw High School
*Crenshaw County, Alabama
*Crenshaw, Mississippi
*Crenshaw, Pennsylvania
Transportation
*Crenshaw Boulevard
*Crenshaw station (C Line, Los Angeles Met ...
,
Sugar Hill,
Lanes Mills, Erie Junction, and Beechton.
U.S. Route 219 passes through the township as it enters and exits Brockway, leading south to
DuBois and northeast to
Ridgway.
Pennsylvania Route 28
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crosses the township, starting in Brockway and leading west to
Brookville, the Jefferson
county seat
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.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the township has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.48%, are water.
Little Toby Creek Little Toby Creek is a tributary of the Clarion River in northwest Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2004.
Little Toby Creek joins the Clarion River near the community of Portland Mills in El ...
, a tributary of the
Clarion River
The Clarion River is a tributary of the Allegheny River, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, in west central Pennsylvania in the United States. It drains a rugged area of the Allegheny Plateau in the Ohio River watershed, flowing throu ...
, crosses the township from east to north. The entire township is within the
Allegheny River watershed.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 2,432 people, 937 households, and 707 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 1,063 housing units at an average density of 25.5/sq mi (9.8/km
2). The racial makeup of the township was 99.14%
White
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, 0.04%
African American
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, 0.21%
Native American, 0.04%
Asian
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* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, 0.08% from
other races
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, and 0.49% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
or
Latino
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** Latin A ...
of any race were 0.33% of the population.
There were 937 households, out of which 32.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.1% were
married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 20.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.02.
In the township the population was spread out, with 24.7% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 102.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.6 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $38,413, and the median income for a family was $41,632. Males had a median income of $34,844 versus $23,011 for females. The
per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population.
Per capita i ...
for the township was $18,163. About 2.1% of families and 3.0% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 4.3% of those under age 18 and 1.1% of those age 65 or over.
References
External links
Snyder Township official website
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Townships in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania