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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Foster Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 242 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 251 to 241 (-4%). Half of its homes were built before 1944.

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Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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