Census-designated place · Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania

Pymatuning Central is a census-designated place in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, part of the Meadville, PA metro area. It has 2,593 residents. Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 51 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,735 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #718 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on mammography screening (high), hot days (low) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), adult smoking (high) and drug overdose deaths (high).

51Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,735 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #718 of 997 in PA
Population: 2,593 (2020-2024)
Land area: 16 mi²
Density: 158.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4263009

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.

Safety66#5,319/15,637
Economy40#9,302/15,631
Housing81#2,777/14,977
Health25#11,746/15,609
Healthcare46#8,450/15,650
Environment80#3,038/15,453
Education40#9,406/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,126/15,650
Community70#4,636/15,651
Leisure & amenities53#7,297/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Crawford 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 · high57.0%
96/100Pennsylvania 51.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value
Hot days · low2 days
95/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCrawford County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.352
95/100Pennsylvania 0.474United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Home price to income ratio · low1.9×
95/100Pennsylvania 3.3×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Pennsylvania 4.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCrawford County value
Social associations · high15.4 /10k
92/100Pennsylvania 11.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low7.7 /1k
5/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauCrawford County value
Adult smoking · high21.3%
8/100Pennsylvania 15.6%United States 16.1%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Drug overdose deaths · high28.0 /100k
11/100Pennsylvania 19.6 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCrawford County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low14.2%
15/100Pennsylvania 35.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Distance to an airport · high82 mi
17/100Pennsylvania 36 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCrawford County value
Average commute time · high34.3 min
17/100Pennsylvania 26.3 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,163 (2015-2019) → 2,593 (2020-2024)
+20%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
77.1% (2015-2019) → 88.9% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
21.2% (2015-2019) → 14.2% (2020-2024)
−7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
29.9% (2015-2019) → 22.9% (2020-2024)
−7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
89.7% (2015-2019) → 96.0% (2020-2024)
+6.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$49,293 (2015-2019) → $64,479 (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania improved on 3 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved3

Inequality−0.0990.451 → 0.352
Broadband+12 points77.1% → 88.9%
Household income+31%$49,293 → $64,479

Declined1

Bachelor's+−7 points21.2% → 14.2%

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.6 min2015-2019	34.3 min2020-2024	+5.8 min	Within the margin of error	8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.2%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	−7 points	Declined	4%
Broadband subscriptions	77.1%2015-2019	88.9%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	68%
Effective property tax rate	1.42%2015-2019	1.26%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	49%
High school diploma or higher	89.7%2015-2019	96.0%2020-2024	+6.3 points	Within the margin of error	87%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	1.9×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	87%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4512015-2019	0.3522020-2024	−0.099	Improved	96%
Median household income	$49,2932015-2019	$64,4792020-2024	+31%	Improved	57%
Poverty rate	7.3%2015-2019	10.9%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.9%2015-2019	5.8%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	48%

“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 Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pymatuning Central, 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, Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania itself moved +6.8 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

2,593 residents (±401)

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

1,186 households (±133)

Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k15%182
$25k–50k18%†217
$50k–75k25%†301

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,186 households (±133)

Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own91%1,078
Rent9.1%†108

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

993 workers (±142)

Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone82%811
Carpool6.4%†64
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 Meadville, 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 Crawford County, the county holding most of Pymatuning Central's residents.

Crawford County has 1,921 employer establishments, 234 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 0.99× Pennsylvania's), with 25,729 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,291. The Census Bureau also counts 5,658 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,921; 5,658 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 234; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 25,729
Average annual pay: $46,291; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	136	16.6	0.80×Fewer than typical	1,548	$66,614	155
Restaurants and other eating places	127	15.5	0.84×About typical	1,786	$17,096	22
Specialty trade contractors	106	12.9	0.83×About typical	489	$57,004	665
Religious organizations	84	10.2	1.85×More than typical	326	$19,368	—
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	71	8.7	5.42×More than typical	2,392	$60,310	43
Machinery manufacturing	65	7.9	12.3×More than typical	1,345	$59,411	16
Full-service restaurants	61	7.4	0.97×About typical	1,027	$17,663	11
Automotive repair and maintenance	54	6.6	1.31×More than typical	204	$39,064	116
Limited-service restaurants	49	6	0.74×Fewer than typical	673	$16,672	7
Offices of physicians	48	5.9	0.90×About typical	497	$101,195	39
Offices of other health practitioners	42	5.1	0.84×About typical	234	$40,850	80
Building equipment contractors	41	5	0.83×About typical	230	$54,065	89

Rank places for an industry Open Crawford County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 82,016 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 Pymatuning Central, 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

3.9KFY2017
7.9KFY2018
70KFY2019
107.4KFY2020

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 Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Crawford County, PA ($5.8M 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: Pymatuning Central is mostly in Crawford County.

See federal money in Crawford 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.

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

House

Mike KellyR-PA-16 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.6%

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.

Crawford County58100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Meadville, PA47

Other cities and towns in Crawford 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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