Census-designated place · Erie County, Pennsylvania

Avonia, Pennsylvania

Avonia is a census-designated place in Erie County, Pennsylvania, part of the Erie, PA metro area. It has 1,793 residents. Avonia, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 78 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,484 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #248 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), poverty rate (low) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), distance to an airport (high) and food environment index (low).

78High

Quality-of-life score: #3,484 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #248 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,793 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 681.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4203676

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety56#6,908/15,637
Economy79#3,268/15,631
Housing86#2,114/14,977
Health51#7,629/15,609
Healthcare71#4,580/15,650
Environment89#1,708/15,453
Education78#3,430/15,649
Infrastructure42#9,059/15,650
Community51#7,608/15,651
Leisure & amenities54#7,255/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Avonia, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Erie County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Rent as share of income · low9.0%
100/100Pennsylvania 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At most this value: the publisher's bottom bracket is open-ended
Poverty rate · low1.7%
97/100Pennsylvania 11.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Hot days · low1 days
97/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationErie County value
New business applications · high20.7 /1k
91/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauErie County value
Unemployment rate · low1.1%
91/100Pennsylvania 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Natural hazard risk · low5.6
91/100Pennsylvania 22.42025Federal Emergency Management AgencyErie County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Pennsylvania 3.5United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesErie County value
Distance to an airport · high89 mi
13/100Pennsylvania 36 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauErie County value
Food environment index · low7.0
15/100Pennsylvania 8.5United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteErie County value
Child care cost burden · high36.2%
19/100Pennsylvania 34.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteErie County value
Comfortable days · low23.8%
20/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationErie County value
High ozone days · high3 days
21/100Pennsylvania 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyErie County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,093 (2015-2019) → 1,793 (2020-2024)
+64%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent as share of incomeImproving
51.0% (2015-2019) → 9.0% (2020-2024)
−42 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
70.6% (2015-2019) → 36.8% (2020-2024)
−34 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
100.0% (2015-2019) → 89.8% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
48.3% (2015-2019) → 40.9% (2020-2024)
−7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 2.5× (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Avonia, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Rent / income−42 points51.0% → 9.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Avonia, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.7 min2015-2019	20.4 min2020-2024	−4.4 min	Within the margin of error	87%
Bachelor's degree or higher	48.3%2015-2019	40.9%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Broadband subscriptions	91.7%2015-2019	91.7%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	1.87%2015-2019	1.26%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	94%
High school diploma or higher	100.0%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	−10 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	42%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3252015-2019	0.4052020-2024	+0.080	Within the margin of error	8%
Median household income	$90,2082015-2019	$99,9312020-2024	+11%	Within the margin of error	18%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	9.0%2020-2024	−42 points	Improved	100%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Avonia, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Avonia, Pennsylvania in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Avonia, Pennsylvania itself moved −2.1 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,793 residents (±536)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

635 households (±160)

Avonia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k7.1%†45
$25k–50k3.8%†24
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

635 households (±160)

Avonia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own91%†578
Rent9.0%†57

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

841 workers (±286)

Avonia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone76%†643
Carpool0.7%†6
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Erie, PA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Erie County, the county holding most of Avonia's residents.

Erie County has 6,103 employer establishments, 228 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Pennsylvania's), with 114,339 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,456. The Census Bureau also counts 15,792 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,103; 15,792 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 228; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 114,339
Average annual pay: $51,456; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Erie County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	537	20.1	0.96×About typical	9,335	$77,635	773
Restaurants and other eating places	458	17.1	0.93×About typical	8,442	$18,753	78
Specialty trade contractors	322	12	0.78×Fewer than typical	2,413	$66,105	1,002
Limited-service restaurants	211	7.9	0.98×About typical	4,075	$16,737	31
Religious organizations	193	7.2	1.30×More than typical	1,242	$23,357	—
Full-service restaurants	186	6.9	0.90×About typical	3,875	$20,481	32
Offices of physicians	183	6.8	1.06×About typical	4,136	$114,119	154
Services to buildings and dwellings	166	6.2	0.92×About typical	1,230	$35,686	756
Personal care services	165	6.2	1.29×More than typical	732	$27,152	496
Automotive repair and maintenance	159	5.9	1.18×About typical	674	$41,690	225
Offices of other health practitioners	151	5.6	0.93×About typical	871	$42,588	410
Lessors of real estate	148	5.5	0.45×Fewer than typical	596	$47,579	1,721

Rank places for an industry Open Erie County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 267,628 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $96K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Avonia, Pennsylvania: $53.54 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $96K; −49% vs FY2025
Per resident: $53.54; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$86.9K91%
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$20.1K21%
Department of the Army$4,4874.7%
Defense Logistics Agency$1550.2%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

17.9KFY2017
36.5KFY2018
34.2KFY2019
151.3KFY2020
86.3KFY2021
44.9KFY2022
112KFY2023
25.8K

Top industries (NAICS)

Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) · 6231$86.9K91%
Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$20.1K21%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$4,7094.9%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$2,0842.2%
Waste treatment and disposal · 5622$1550.2%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Avonia, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Avonia, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Erie County, PA ($100.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Avonia is mostly in Erie County.

See federal money in Erie County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Avonia, Pennsylvania is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Mike KellyR-PA-16 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Erie County70100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Erie, PA71

Other cities and towns in Erie County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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