Sergeant Township is a

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McKean County, Pennsylvania McKean County is a rural county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,432. Its county seat is Smethport. The county was created in 1804 and organized in 1826. It was named in honor of former Penns ...

, United States. The population was 147 at the time of the 2020 census.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of 80.3 square miles (208.0 km²), of which 80.3 square miles (207.9 km²) is land and 0.04 square mile (0.1 km²) (0.05%) is water.

Climate

Clermont is a populated place within the Sergeant Township. Clermont has a

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(

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''Dfb''), with warm summers and cold, snowy winters.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were one hundred and seventy-six people, seventy-seven households and fifty-eight families residing in the township. The

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was 2.2 people per square mile (0.8/km²). There were three hundred and twenty-nine housing units at an average density of 4.1/sq mi (1.6/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 96.02%

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, 0.57%

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, and 3.41% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 2.27% of the population. There were seventy-seven households, out of which 24.7% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 66.2% were

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living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.4% were non-families. 22.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.7% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.64. In the township, the population was spread out, with 17.6% under the age of eighteen, 5.1% from eighteen to twenty-four, 22.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 33.5% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 21.0% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-eight years. For every one hundred females, there were 114.6 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 113.2 males. The median income for a household in the township was $33,438, and the median income for a family was $37,813. Males had a median income of $33,000 compared with $21,875 for females. The

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for the township was $16,063. About 6.2% of families and 9.8% of the population were below the

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, including 8.5% of those under the age of 18 and 18.4% of those 65 or over.

References

{{authority control Populated places established in 1809 Townships in McKean County, Pennsylvania Townships in Pennsylvania