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Factoryville, Pennsylvania

Factoryville is a borough in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro area. It has 1,368 residents. Factoryville, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 49 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,982 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #743 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), median Air Quality Index (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), distance to an emergency room (high) and public EV charging ports (low).

49Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,982 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #743 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,368 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,808.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4224488

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety88#1,853/15,637
Economy10#14,029/15,631
Housing33#10,058/14,977
Health54#7,153/15,609
Healthcare62#5,905/15,650
Environment58#6,461/15,453
Education59#6,408/15,649
Infrastructure44#8,745/15,650
Community56#6,919/15,651
Leisure & amenities25#11,661/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Violent crime rate · low39 /100k
99/100Pennsylvania 227 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWyoming County value
Median Air Quality Index · low24
97/100Pennsylvania 432025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWyoming County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Pennsylvania 4.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWyoming County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWyoming County value
Hot days · low3 days
90/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWyoming County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWyoming County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high12.7%
5/100Pennsylvania 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Distance to an emergency room · high15.5 mi
7/100Pennsylvania 5.0 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWyoming County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.8 /10k
9/100Pennsylvania 4.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyWyoming County value
Comfortable days · low23.2%
9/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWyoming County value
Distance to an airport · high102 mi
9/100Pennsylvania 36 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauWyoming County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high99 mi
10/100Pennsylvania 21 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauWyoming County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,292 (2015-2019) → 1,368 (2020-2024)
+5.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
32.1% (2015-2019) → 62.2% (2020-2024)
+30 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
3.3% (2015-2019) → 25.4% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
25.5% (2015-2019) → 45.0% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
5.0% (2015-2019) → 21.8% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.9% (2015-2019) → 94.9% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Factoryville, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 6 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

Broadband+11 points83.9% → 94.9%

Declined3

Poverty+17 points5.0% → 21.8%
Rent burden+30 points32.1% → 62.2%
Inequality+0.0990.357 → 0.456

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Factoryville, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.6 min2015-2019	18.6 min2020-2024	−4.1 min	Within the margin of error	86%
Bachelor's degree or higher	31.1%2015-2019	29.3%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	83.9%2015-2019	94.9%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	64%
Effective property tax rate	1.57%2015-2019	1.24%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
High school diploma or higher	93.3%2015-2019	91.8%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+1.1×	Within the margin of error	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3572015-2019	0.4562020-2024	+0.099	Declined	5%
Median household income	$54,9432015-2019	$54,0282020-2024	−1.7%	Within the margin of error	6%
Poverty rate	5.0%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	+17 points	Declined	1%
Rent-burdened households	32.1%2015-2019	62.2%2020-2024	+30 points	Declined	3%

“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 Factoryville, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Factoryville, 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, Factoryville, Pennsylvania itself moved −17.8 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

1,368 residents (±193)

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

353 households (±68)

Factoryville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k26%†91
$25k–50k21%†75
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

353 households (±68)

Factoryville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own68%240
Rent32%†113

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

509 workers (±99)

Factoryville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone64%327
Carpool2.2%†11
Public transit0.0%0

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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, 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 Wyoming County, the county holding most of Factoryville's residents.

Wyoming County has 633 employer establishments, 244 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 1.03× Pennsylvania's), with 8,032 paid employees at an average annual pay of $60,544. The Census Bureau also counts 1,762 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 633; 1,762 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 244; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 8,032
Average annual pay: $60,544; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	40	15.4	1.00×About typical	180	$67,361	162
Truck transportation	37	14.3	2.82×More than typical	394	$70,325	47
Ambulatory health care services	36	13.9	0.67×Fewer than typical	238	$67,420	68
Restaurants and other eating places	36	13.9	0.76×Fewer than typical	467	$17,812	10
Automotive repair and maintenance	22	8.5	1.69×More than typical	111	$39,523	52
Services to buildings and dwellings	22	8.5	1.26×More than typical	87	$38,908	121
Gasoline stations	20	7.7	2.38×More than typical	181	$22,829	—
Construction of buildings	19	7.3	0.97×About typical	135	$58,874	72
Full-service restaurants	18	6.9	0.90×About typical	243	$16,029	4
Insurance agencies and brokerages	18	6.9	1.58×More than typical	56	$58,429	27
Religious organizations	17	6.6	1.18×About typical	49	$15,653	—
Landscaping services	16	6.2	1.76×More than typical	57	$49,368	48

Rank places for an industry Open Wyoming County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 25,912 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Factoryville, Pennsylvania: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

30.9FY2017
15.5FY2019

What was bought

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 Factoryville, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Factoryville, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Wyoming County, PA ($63K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Wyoming 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.

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

House

Daniel MeuserR-PA-9 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 5.2%

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.

Wyoming County63100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA61

Other cities and towns in Wyoming 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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