Limestone Township is a

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Montour County Montour County is a county in the Commonwealth of 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 Métis interpreter who served with George Washi ...

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, United States.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of 13.4 square miles (34.7 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 1,004 people, 335 households, and 277 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 346 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 98.31%

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, 0.50%

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, 0.20% from other races, and 1.00% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 0.30% of the population. There were 335 households, out of which 37.0% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 74.0% were

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living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.3% were non-families. 14.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.34. In the township, the population was spread out with 30.1% under the age of eighteen, 7.9% aged eighteen to twenty-four, 27.2% aged twenty-five to forty-four, 22.8% aged forty-five to sixty-four, and 12.1% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-six years. For every one hundred females, there were 98.8 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen and older, there were 98.9 males. The median income for a household in the township was $41,369, and the median income for a family was $43,906. Males had a median income of $35,652 compared with that of $22,262 for females. The

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for the township was $16,426. Roughly 8.9% of families and 11.4% of the population were living below the

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, including 18.2% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 6.3% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1790 Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area Townships in Montour County, Pennsylvania Townships in Pennsylvania