Census-designated place · Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Fairhope, Pennsylvania

Fairhope is a census-designated place in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh, PA metro area. It has 1,082 residents. Fairhope, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,148 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #967 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on drought exposure (low), hot days (low) and mental health care shortage (low). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), median household income (low) and adult smoking (high).

29Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,148 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #967 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,082 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,279.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4224664

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.

Safety25#11,656/15,637
Economy2#15,335/15,631
Housing56#6,661/14,977
Health9#14,205/15,609
Healthcare73#4,237/15,650
Environment76#3,699/15,453
Education27#11,450/15,649
Infrastructure56#6,905/15,650
Community25#11,724/15,651
Leisure & amenities31#10,835/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drought exposure · low0%
95/100Pennsylvania 26%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAFayette County value
Hot days · low3 days
91/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFayette County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationFayette County value
Mental health providers · high520 /100k
89/100Pennsylvania 308 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/100Pennsylvania 0.8%2025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyFayette County value
Social associations · high13.5 /10k
84/100Pennsylvania 11.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value

Weaknesses

Bachelor's degree or higher · low5.8%
2/100Pennsylvania 35.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Median household income · low$37,014
4/100Pennsylvania $77,532United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Adult smoking · high22.6%
5/100Pennsylvania 15.6%United States 16.1%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Injury deaths · high140 /100k
6/100Pennsylvania 98 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,019 /100k
9/100Pennsylvania 3,115 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFayette County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Pennsylvania 3.5United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFayette County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
52.6% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−53 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.3× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+173%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.7% (2015-2019) → 97.4% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
12.4% (2015-2019) → 24.8% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
17.1% (2015-2019) → 5.8% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Poverty rateWorsening
12.1% (2015-2019) → 21.7% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Fairhope, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 3 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+26 points71.7% → 97.4%

Declined3

Household income−46%$69,158 → $37,014
Inequality+0.1520.354 → 0.506
Price / income+2.2×1.3× → 3.5×

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Fairhope, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	71.7%2015-2019	97.4%2020-2024	+26 points	Improved	96%
Effective property tax rate	1.33%2015-2019	1.63%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	1%
High school diploma or higher	93.9%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	−3.9 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Home price to income ratio	1.3×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+2.2×	Declined	3%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3542015-2019	0.5062020-2024	+0.152	Declined	1%
Median household income	$69,1582015-2019	$37,0142020-2024	−46%	Declined	0%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“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 Fairhope, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Fairhope, 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, Fairhope, Pennsylvania itself moved −29.9 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

1,082 residents (±310)

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

530 households (±156)

Fairhope, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k33%†176
$25k–50k34%†182
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

530 households (±156)

Fairhope, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own84%†447
Rent16%†83

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

323 workers (±134)

Fairhope, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone76%†246
Carpool4.3%†14
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 Pittsburgh, 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 Fayette County, the county holding most of Fairhope's residents.

Fayette County has 2,485 employer establishments, 199 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.84× Pennsylvania's), with 31,590 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,226. The Census Bureau also counts 6,708 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,485; 6,708 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 199; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 31,590
Average annual pay: $45,226; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	236	18.9	0.91×About typical	2,941	$70,395	290
Restaurants and other eating places	187	15	0.82×About typical	3,199	$17,374	44
Specialty trade contractors	147	11.8	0.76×Fewer than typical	907	$60,718	662
Religious organizations	108	8.7	1.56×More than typical	426	$16,939	—
Limited-service restaurants	98	7.9	0.98×About typical	1,421	$15,899	18
Automotive repair and maintenance	84	6.7	1.34×More than typical	304	$39,757	192
Truck transportation	79	6.3	1.25×More than typical	739	$53,847	155
Construction of buildings	75	6	0.80×Fewer than typical	220	$49,127	228
Full-service restaurants	75	6	0.78×Fewer than typical	1,623	$18,821	17
Offices of other health practitioners	72	5.8	0.95×About typical	500	$39,752	139
Offices of physicians	65	5.2	0.81×About typical	935	$124,882	32
Gasoline stations	61	4.9	1.51×More than typical	621	$25,477	3

Rank places for an industry Open Fayette County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 124,645 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 $7,942 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Fairhope, Pennsylvania: $7.34 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $7,942
Per resident: $7.34; 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 the Army$7,942100%

Top recipients

DIVE LAB, INC.$7,942100%

Spending by fiscal year

3.9KFY2017
5KFY2018
-414.1FY2019
212.4KFY2020
159.4KFY2021
601FY2022
0FY2023
2.9KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other professional, scientific, and technical services · 5419$7,942100%

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

Fairhope, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Fayette County, PA ($9.8M 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: Fairhope is mostly in Fayette County.

See federal money in Fayette 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.

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

House

Guy ReschenthalerR-PA-14 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 3.0%

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.

Fayette County45100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Pittsburgh, PA84

Other cities and towns in Fayette 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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