Little Beaver Township, Pennsylvania
History
Old Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 20.5 square miles (53 km), of which 20.4 square miles (53 km) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km), or 0.63%, is water.
Demographics
As of the census 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/km). There were 502 housing units at an average density of 24.6/sq mi (9.5/km).
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.