Census-designated place · Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania

Lenape Heights is a census-designated place in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, part of the Pittsburgh, PA metro area. It has 1,042 residents. Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 60 out of 100 (high), ranking #6,222 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #535 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on poverty rate (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (low) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on gyms and fitness centers (low), public EV charging ports (low) and natural hazard risk (high).

60High

Quality-of-life score: #6,222 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #535 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,042 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,364.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4242672

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.

Safety71#4,600/15,637
Economy58#6,492/15,631
Housing96#584/14,977
Health43#8,953/15,609
Healthcare50#7,877/15,650
Environment23#11,961/15,453
Education86#2,186/15,649
Infrastructure25#11,760/15,650
Community81#2,960/15,651
Leisure & amenities19#12,650/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Poverty rate · low0.1%
100/100Pennsylvania 11.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.0%
99/100Pennsylvania 7.2%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.305
99/100Pennsylvania 0.474United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Rent as share of income · low14.5%
99/100Pennsylvania 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Social associations · high19.5 /10k
98/100Pennsylvania 11.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteArmstrong County value
Drought exposure · low0%
94/100Pennsylvania 26%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAArmstrong County value

Weaknesses

Gyms and fitness centers · low0.2 /10k
8/100Pennsylvania 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsArmstrong County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.8 /10k
9/100Pennsylvania 4.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyArmstrong County value
Natural hazard risk · high89.9
10/100Pennsylvania 22.42025Federal Emergency Management AgencyArmstrong County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low2.2 /10k
14/100Pennsylvania 4.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsArmstrong County value
Dentists · low33 /100k
14/100Pennsylvania 73 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteArmstrong County value
Injury deaths · high120 /100k
15/100Pennsylvania 98 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteArmstrong County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,107 (2015-2019) → 1,042 (2020-2024)
−5.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
14.9% (2015-2019) → 37.9% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
20.9% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
75.6% (2015-2019) → 93.9% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$53,286 (2015-2019) → $76,250 (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
8.1% (2015-2019) → 0.1% (2020-2024)
−8 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, Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania improved on 4 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved4

Inequality−0.1100.415 → 0.305
Broadband+18 points75.6% → 93.9%
Rent / income−7.4 points21.9% → 14.5%
Household income+43%$53,286 → $76,250

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.9%2015-2019	37.9%2020-2024	+23 points	Within the margin of error	99%
Broadband subscriptions	75.6%2015-2019	93.9%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	87%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	1.57%2015-2019	1.17%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	85%
High school diploma or higher	94.9%2015-2019	97.6%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	−0.0×	Within the margin of error	80%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4152015-2019	0.3052020-2024	−0.110	Improved	97%
Median household income	$53,2862015-2019	$76,2502020-2024	+43%	Improved	78%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	21.9%2015-2019	14.5%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Improved	89%

“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 Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lenape Heights, 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, Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania itself moved +22.2 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

1,042 residents (±293)

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

555 households (±136)

Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k4.0%†22
$25k–50k20%†113
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

555 households (±136)

Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own85%472
Rent15%†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

631 workers (±254)

Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone76%†482
Carpool9.5%†60
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 Armstrong County, the county holding most of Lenape Heights's residents.

Armstrong County has 1,288 employer establishments, 201 for every 10,000 residents (0.81× the US rate of 248; 0.85× Pennsylvania's), with 14,258 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,995. The Census Bureau also counts 3,529 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,288; 3,529 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 201; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 14,258
Average annual pay: $44,995; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	97	15.1	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,087	$57,877	114
Religious organizations	91	14.2	2.56×More than typical	363	$15,047	—
Specialty trade contractors	91	14.2	0.92×About typical	607	$56,463	400
Restaurants and other eating places	86	13.4	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,192	$13,320	15
Full-service restaurants	43	6.7	0.87×About typical	584	$14,336	4
Building equipment contractors	39	6.1	1.01×About typical	360	$50,808	73
Truck transportation	39	6.1	1.20×About typical	420	$53,617	88
Automotive repair and maintenance	35	5.5	1.08×About typical	183	$36,311	99
Banks and credit unions	35	5.5	1.69×More than typical	341	$61,205	—
Offices of physicians	33	5.1	0.79×Fewer than typical	234	$94,103	14
Limited-service restaurants	32	5	0.62×Fewer than typical	514	$12,397	6
Lessors of real estate	30	4.7	0.38×Fewer than typical	74	$44,149	257

Rank places for an industry Open Armstrong County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 64,157 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 -$448 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania: -$0.43 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$448; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.43; 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

Bureau of Land Management$52.040.0%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

88.7KFY2017
57.6KFY2018
40.5KFY2019
82.9KFY2020
386.9KFY2021
163.7KFY2022
1.3MFY2023
1.3MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$1,7960.0%
Justice, public order, and safety activities · 9221$1480.0%

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 Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Lenape Heights, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Armstrong County, PA ($33M 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: Lenape Heights is mostly in Armstrong County.

See federal money in Armstrong 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.

Lenape Heights, 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.

Armstrong County57100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Pittsburgh, PA84

Other cities and towns in Armstrong 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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