Little Beaver Township
Township
Old Homestead, a historic site in the township
Location of Little Beaver Township in Lawrence County
Location of Lawrence County in Pennsylvania
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Lawrence
Established	1796
Area [1]
• Total	20.50 sq mi (53.10 km2)
• Land	20.37 sq mi (52.76 km2)
• Water	0.13 sq mi (0.34 km2)
Highest elevation [2] (north of Mount Air)	1,240 ft (380 m)
Lowest elevation [2] (North Fork Little Beaver Creek)	940 ft (290 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	1,227
• Estimate  (2022)[3]	1,208
• Density	66.27/sq mi (25.59/km2)
Time zone	UTC-4 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (EDT)
Area code	724

Little Beaver Township is a township in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,227 at the time of the 2020 census,^[4] a decline from the figure of 1,411 tabulated in 2010.^[5]

History

Old Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[6]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 20.5 square miles (53 km²), of which 20.4 square miles (53 km²) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km²), or 0.63%, is water.

Demographics

As of the census^[7] of 2000, there were 1,310 people, 451 households, and 362 families residing in the township.

The population density was 64.1 inhabitants per square mile (24.7/km²). There were 502 housing units at an average density of 24.6/sq mi (9.5/km²).

The racial makeup of the township was 99.39% White, 0.23% African American, and 0.38% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.61% of the population.

There were 451 households, out of which 38.4% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 68.5% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.7% were non-families. 16.2% 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 2.90 and the average family size was 3.28.

In the township the population was spread out, with 30.3% under the age of eighteen, 6.4% from eighteen to twenty-four, 30.5% from twenty-five to forty-four, 23.0% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 9.8% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-four years.

For every one hundred females there were 95.5 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen and over, there were 99.8 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $35,368, and the median income for a family was $40,795. Males had a median income of $33,929 compared with that of $21,023 for females.

The per capita income for the township was $14,689.

Roughly 13.8% of families and 15.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.7% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 4.5% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

References

40°53′20″N 80°26′03″W / 40.88889°N 80.43417°W / 40.88889; -80.43417