Borough · Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

Brockway, Pennsylvania

Brockway is a borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It has 2,191 residents. Brockway, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 51 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,665 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #708 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), homicide rate (low) and students per teacher (low). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), broadband subscriptions (low) and new business applications (low).

51Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,665 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #708 of 997 in PA
Population: 2,191 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,849.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 4208960

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 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.

Safety82#2,820/15,637
Economy23#12,033/15,631
Housing92#1,129/14,977
Health25#11,652/15,609
Healthcare26#11,550/15,650
Environment59#6,270/15,453
Education80#3,089/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,922/15,650
Community71#4,488/15,651
Leisure & amenities32#10,574/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Brockway, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jefferson 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

Social associations · high20.6 /10k
98/100Pennsylvania 11.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Pennsylvania 4.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJefferson County value
Students per teacher · low11.2×
92/100Pennsylvania 13.1×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsJefferson County value
Hot days · low3 days
92/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationJefferson County value
Property crime rate · low455 /100k
91/100Pennsylvania 1,324 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJefferson County value
Reading scores · high3.31
89/100Pennsylvania 3.10United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.5 /10k
3/100Pennsylvania 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJefferson County value
Broadband subscriptions · low76.1%
4/100Pennsylvania 89.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
New business applications · low7.7 /1k
5/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauJefferson County value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100Pennsylvania 4.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationJefferson County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.2 /10k
9/100Pennsylvania 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJefferson County value
Adult smoking · high19.9%
13/100Pennsylvania 15.6%United States 16.1%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,987 (2015-2019) → 2,191 (2020-2024)
+10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
38.8% (2015-2019) → 32.6% (2020-2024)
−6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeImproving
22.7 min (2015-2019) → 16.9 min (2020-2024)
−26%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Median household incomeImproving
$45,272 (2015-2019) → $56,563 (2020-2024)
+25%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
High school diploma or higherImproving
90.7% (2015-2019) → 95.1% (2020-2024)
+4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
21.9% (2015-2019) → 25.7% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Brockway, Pennsylvania improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Brockway, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.7 min2015-2019	16.9 min2020-2024	−5.8 min	Within the margin of error	93%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.4%2015-2019	19.4%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Broadband subscriptions	72.7%2015-2019	76.1%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Effective property tax rate	1.31%2015-2019	1.03%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
High school diploma or higher	90.7%2015-2019	95.1%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.4×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	68%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4072015-2019	0.4102020-2024	+0.003	Within the margin of error	48%
Median household income	$45,2722015-2019	$56,5632020-2024	+25%	Within the margin of error	44%
Poverty rate	12.4%2015-2019	11.7%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.0%2015-2019	26.3%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent-burdened households	38.8%2015-2019	32.6%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	75%

“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 Brockway, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Brockway, 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, Brockway, Pennsylvania itself moved +3.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

2,191 residents (±203)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 20–29 men (+4.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

2,191 residents (±203)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

White97%2,124
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino0.0%0

Education

1,708 residents (±156)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

No high school diploma4.9%†84
High school or GED55%945
Some college9.1%†155

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

1,022 households (±104)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k17%†170
$25k–50k31%†315
$50k–75k15%†150
$75k–100k14%†138
$100k–150k17%†176
$150k–200k3.2%†33
$200k or more3.9%†40

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+8.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,022 households (±104)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own66%675
Rent34%347

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

322 households (±96)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $75053%†170
$750–1,00023%†73
$1,000–1,50025%†

Home values

675 homes (±109)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $150k56%375
$150k–250k38%†257
$250k–400k5.5%†37

Age of homes

1,060 homes (±109)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

2010 or later0.0%0
2000–20090.0%0
1980–199913%†141

Size of homes

1,060 homes (±109)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Studio3.6%†38
1 bedroom11%†117
2 bedrooms19%†199

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,096 workers (±172)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone82%896
Carpool8.2%†90
Public transit0.0%0
Walk3.2%†35
Bike0.0%0
Work from home6.8%†75
Other0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+6.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

1,021 workers (±167)

Brockway, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under 15 min38%†390
15–29 min46%†470
30–44 min12%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Jefferson County, the county holding most of Brockway's residents.

Jefferson County has 1,113 employer establishments, 255 for every 10,000 residents (1.03× the US rate of 248; 1.08× Pennsylvania's), with 13,508 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,978. The Census Bureau also counts 3,030 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,113; 3,030 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 255; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 13,508
Average annual pay: $44,978; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	85	19.5	1.06×About typical	878	$14,941	22
Ambulatory health care services	69	15.8	0.76×Fewer than typical	507	$62,623	86
Religious organizations	67	15.4	2.77×More than typical	212	$16,835	—
Specialty trade contractors	49	11.2	0.73×Fewer than typical	254	$54,331	426
Truck transportation	41	9.4	1.86×More than typical	310	$52,616	106
Full-service restaurants	38	8.7	1.13×About typical	413	$16,341	8
Automotive repair and maintenance	36	8.2	1.64×More than typical	108	$31,889	84
Construction of buildings	35	8	1.06×About typical	95	$34,063	199
Limited-service restaurants	34	7.8	0.97×About typical	424	$13,814	6
Services to buildings and dwellings	30	6.9	1.02×About typical	222	$48,730	162
Offices of physicians	27	6.2	0.96×About typical	197	$96,924	11
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	25	5.7	3.59×More than typical	1,340	$53,230	12

Rank places for an industry Open Jefferson County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 43,637 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Jefferson 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.

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

House

Glenn ThompsonR-PA-15 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.2%

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.

Jefferson County57100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Jefferson 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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