Official Name: | Liberty Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Image Map1: | Map of Pennsylvania highlighting McKean County.svg |
Mapsize1: | 250px |
Map Caption1: | Map of McKean County, Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | McKean |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1785 |
Established Title1: | Incorporated |
Established Date1: | 1828 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 216.86 |
Area Land Km2: | 215.86 |
Area Water Km2: | 1.00 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 83.73 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 83.34 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.39 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 1604 |
Population Density Km2: | 7.13 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 18.48 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Area Code: | 814 |
Pop Est As Of: | 2022 |
Population Est: | 1564 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 42-083-43096 |
Liberty Township is a township in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,604 at the time of the census.[2]
Lynn Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 83.5 square miles (216.3 km2), all of it land.
As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 1,726 people, 704 households, and 496 families residing in the township.
The population density was 20.7 people per square mile (8.0/km2). There were 898 housing units at an average density of 10.8/sq mi (4.2/km2).
The racial makeup of the township was 97.97% White, 0.12% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 1.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.58% of the population.
There were 704 households, out of which 31.4% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 55.4% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.5% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.7% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.88.
In the township the population was spread out, with 24.9% under the age of eighteen, 6.1% from eighteen to twenty-four, 28.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 25.0% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 15.3% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-nine years.
For every one hundred females there were 104.5 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen and over, there were 103.6 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $34,200, and the median income for a family was $40,761. Males had a median income of $33,500 compared with that of $20,817 for females.
The per capita income for the township was $16,434.
Roughly 8.3% of families and 13.5% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 15.1% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 12.1% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.