Census-designated place · Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Kenmar, Pennsylvania

Kenmar is a census-designated place in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, part of the Williamsport, PA metro area. It has 5,077 residents. Kenmar, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 44 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,817 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #825 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on mammography screening (high), social associations (high) and math scores (high). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), new business applications (low) and comfortable days (low).

44Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,817 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #825 of 997 in PA
Population: 5,077 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 2,478.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4239280

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.

Safety62#5,996/15,637
Economy14#13,468/15,631
Housing34#9,947/14,977
Health50#7,831/15,609
Healthcare60#6,301/15,650
Environment54#7,036/15,453
Education93#1,106/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,912/15,650
Community47#8,364/15,651
Leisure & amenities41#9,174/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Mammography screening · high62.0%
99/100Pennsylvania 51.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLycoming County value
Social associations · high15.4 /10k
92/100Pennsylvania 11.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLycoming County value
Math scores · high3.40
89/100Pennsylvania 3.12United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLycoming County value
Drug overdose deaths · low8.4 /100k
87/100Pennsylvania 19.6 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataLycoming County value
Reading scores · high3.28
86/100Pennsylvania 3.10United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLycoming County value
Hot days · low5 days
85/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLycoming County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high17.7%
2/100Pennsylvania 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
New business applications · low7.8 /1k
6/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauLycoming County value
Comfortable days · low22.9%
7/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLycoming County value
Broadband subscriptions · low80.0%
11/100Pennsylvania 89.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Access to exercise opportunities · low54.7%
14/100Pennsylvania 86.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLycoming County value
Child care cost burden · high35.9%
20/100Pennsylvania 34.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLycoming County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
4,275 (2015-2019) → 5,077 (2020-2024)
+19%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
42.9% (2015-2019) → 19.8% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
48.8% (2015-2019) → 64.5% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Unemployment rateWorsening
3.6% (2015-2019) → 17.7% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
25.8% (2015-2019) → 38.9% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Poverty rateImproving
23.5% (2015-2019) → 12.5% (2020-2024)
−11 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, Kenmar, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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

Bachelor's++13 points25.8% → 38.9%

Declined1

Transit use−4.8 points4.8% → 0.0%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Kenmar, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	16.8 min2020-2024	−4.0 min	Within the margin of error	85%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.8%2015-2019	38.9%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	95%
Broadband subscriptions	78.7%2015-2019	80.0%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Effective property tax rate	1.32%2015-2019	1.28%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	23%
High school diploma or higher	93.1%2015-2019	96.5%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Home price to income ratio	3.7×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	74%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4862015-2019	0.4302020-2024	−0.056	Within the margin of error	86%
Median household income	$44,4582015-2019	$58,8572020-2024	+32%	Within the margin of error	60%
Poverty rate	23.5%2015-2019	12.5%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Public transit commuters	4.8%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Declined	7%
Rent as share of income	29.7%2015-2019	32.0%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent-burdened households	48.8%2015-2019	64.5%2020-2024	+16 points	Within the margin of error	13%

“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 Kenmar, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Kenmar, 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, Kenmar, Pennsylvania itself moved +1.2 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

5,077 residents (±489)

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

2,374 households (±279)

Kenmar, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k17%†403
$25k–50k23%†536
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,374 households (±279)

Kenmar, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own72%1,703
Rent28%†671

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

1,978 workers (±377)

Kenmar, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone69%1,373
Carpool16%†309
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 Williamsport, 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 Lycoming County, the county holding most of Kenmar's residents.

Lycoming County has 2,744 employer establishments, 242 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 1.03× Pennsylvania's), with 45,994 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,539. The Census Bureau also counts 6,645 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,744; 6,645 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 242; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 45,994
Average annual pay: $50,539; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	220	19.4	0.93×About typical	4,043	$84,881	274
Restaurants and other eating places	196	17.3	0.94×About typical	3,206	$18,677	33
Specialty trade contractors	148	13.1	0.84×About typical	1,307	$78,485	566
Religious organizations	122	10.8	1.94×More than typical	712	$20,360	—
Full-service restaurants	95	8.4	1.09×About typical	1,547	$19,743	13
Lessors of real estate	92	8.1	0.66×Fewer than typical	289	$38,028	779
Offices of physicians	91	8	1.24×About typical	2,025	$122,444	39
Limited-service restaurants	86	7.6	0.95×About typical	1,405	$17,724	13
Automotive repair and maintenance	74	6.5	1.30×More than typical	308	$45,539	147
Construction of buildings	72	6.4	0.84×About typical	382	$53,149	246
Services to buildings and dwellings	72	6.4	0.94×About typical	328	$41,110	362
Banks and credit unions	65	5.7	1.78×More than typical	670	$59,048	—

Rank places for an industry Open Lycoming County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 113,192 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 $140.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Kenmar, Pennsylvania: $27.65 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $140.4K; −65% vs FY2025
Per resident: $27.65; US $1,994
Sole-source: 36%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.9%; 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

Public Buildings Service$57.7K41%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$32.3K23%
Defense Logistics Agency$29.9K21%
Federal Aviation Administration$12.8K9.1%
Department of the Air Force$2,8672.0%
Federal Acquisition Service$1,6711.2%
Department of the Navy$1,3451.0%
Department of Veterans Affairs$6520.5%

Top recipients

FIRETREE LTD$32K23%
ARK CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT LLC$29.5K21%
WIREROPE WORKS, INC.$24.8K18%
RITZ CONSTRUCTION INC$19.5K14%
STELLANT SYSTEMS INC$11.9K8.5%

Spending by fiscal year

280.7KFY2017
560.1KFY2018
511.8KFY2019
278.3KFY2020
433.3KFY2021
446.7KFY2022
441.2KFY2023
429.3K

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$48.8K35%
Other residential care facilities · 6239$32K23%
Spring and wire product manufacturing · 3326$15.4K11%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$12.9K9.2%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$9,4716.7%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413

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

Kenmar, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Lycoming County, PA ($13.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Lycoming 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.

Kenmar, Pennsylvania is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Lycoming County64100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Williamsport, PA60

Other cities and towns in Lycoming 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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