Burnside Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania
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Burnside Township is a township in
Centre County, Pennsylvania Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,172. Its county seat is Bellefonte. Centre County is composed of the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
, United States. It is part of the
State College, Pennsylvania State College is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough and Home rule municipality (Pennsylvania), home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a college town, home to the University Park, Pennsylvania, University Park ...
, Metropolitan Statistical Area. 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 Clearfield County 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
population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...
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% Asian, 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
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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

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