Official Name: | West Hemlock Township, Pennsylvania |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Mapsize: | 250x200px |
Image Map1: | Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Montour County.svg |
Mapsize1: | 250x200px |
Map Caption1: | Map of Montour County, Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Montour |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title1: | Incorporated |
Established Date1: | 1853 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 19.97 |
Area Land Km2: | 19.94 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.03 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 7.71 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 7.70 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 450 |
Population Density Km2: | 25.22 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 65.33 |
Pop Est As Of: | 2021 |
Population Est: | 447 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 42-093-83144 |
West Hemlock Township is a township in Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 7.7 square miles (20.0 km2), all of it land.
As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 489 people, 168 households, and 150 families residing in the township.
The population density was 63.2sp=usNaNsp=us. There were 182 housing units at an average density of 23.5/sq mi (9.1/km2).
The racial makeup of the township was 99.18% White, 0.61% African American and 0.20% Asian.
There were 168 households, out of which 38.1% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 76.8% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 10.7% were non-families. 10.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.0% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.91 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the township the population was spread out, with 27.2% under the age of eighteen, 7.2% from eighteen to twenty-four, 31.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 25.2% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 8.8% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-nine years.
For every one hundred females, there were 109.9 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 113.2 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $45,625, and the median income for a family was $50,000. Males had a median income of $32,500 compare with that of $24,375 for females.
The per capita income for the township was $18,428.
Roughly 7.3% of families and 7.9% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 10.6% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.