Mayberry 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

Mayberry Township is the only municipality in Montour County on the east side of the North Branch of the

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and there is no direct access to the remainder of the county. According to the

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, the township has an area of 7.2 square miles (18.7 km²), of which 7.1 square miles (18.3 km²) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) (1.80%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 244 people, 97 households, and 73 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 110 housing units at an average density of 15.5/sq mi (6.0/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 94.67%

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, 2.05%

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, 0.82% Asian, 2.05% from other races, and 0.41% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 2.46% of the population. There were 97 households, out of which 29.9% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 64.9% were

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living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.7% were non-families. 18.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.2% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 2.92. In the township the population was spread out, with 20.9% under the age of eighteen, 5.7% from eighteen to twenty-four, 36.9% from twenty-five to forty-four, 25.0% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 11.5% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-nine years. For every one hundred females, there were 96.8 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 94.9 males. The median income for a household in the township was $41,875, and the median income for a family was $41,250. Males had a median income of $28,438 compared with that of $23,542 for females. The

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for the township was $18,451. Roughly 2.8% of families and 4.1% of the population were living below the

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, including 17.2% of those under the age of eighteen. None of those aged sixty-five or over were living in poverty.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1783 Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area Townships in Montour County, Pennsylvania Townships in Pennsylvania