Lower Swatara Township is located in Dauphin County, South Central Pennsylvania, six miles outside of Harrisburg City, along the Susquehanna river. Lower Swatara is comprised of residential, commercial, industrial, educational, agricultural and government properties. The Township is 14.6 square miles surrounded by Middletown Borough, Derry Township, Swatara Township, Highspire Borough, Londonderry Township, Steelton Borough and Cumberland County. The population is 8,149 as of the 2000 census.