Census-designated place · Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Trevorton, Pennsylvania
Trevorton is a census-designated place in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, part of the Sunbury, PA metro area. It has 1,775 residents. Trevorton, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,061 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #853 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), mammography screening (high) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and mental health providers (low).
42Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#9,061 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania
#853 of 997 in PA
Population
1,775 (2020-2024)
Land area
4 mi²
Density
416.4 /mi²
FIPS code
4277448
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety81#2,905/15,637
Economy17#13,000/15,631
Housing96#556/14,977
Health42#9,015/15,609
Healthcare38#9,645/15,650
Environment43#8,843/15,453
Education33#10,519/15,649
Infrastructure17#12,993/15,650
Community60#6,235/15,651
Leisure & amenities24#11,871/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Trevorton, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Northumberland 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Trevorton, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Trevorton, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Trevorton is mostly in Northumberland County.
Over about five years, Trevorton, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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+16 points72.6% → 88.9%
Broadband subscriptions
72.6% → 88.9%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+16 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±7.5 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 21 → 38 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 83% of cities and towns
Declined1
Price / income+1.2×1.5× → 2.6×
Home price to income ratio
1.5× → 2.6×2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+1.2×Beyond the margin of error (±0.8×)
Standing among cities and towns: 98 → 74 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 83% of cities and towns
All 13 measures
Change of every measure of Trevorton, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
29.6 min2015-2019
27.7 min2020-2024
−1.9 min
Within the margin of error
69%
Bachelor's degree or higher
9.1%2015-2019
10.7%2020-2024
+1.5 points
Within the margin of error
39%
Broadband subscriptions
72.6%2015-2019
88.9%2020-2024
+16 points
Improved
83%
Child poverty rate
29.5%2015-2019
47.5%2020-2024
+18 points
Within the margin of error
5%
Effective property tax rate
1.58%2015-2019
1.25%2020-2024
−0.3 points
Within the margin of error
78%
High school diploma or higher
91.1%2015-2019
91.5%2020-2024
+0.4 points
Within the margin of error
38%
Home price to income ratio
1.5×2015-2019
2.6×2020-2024
+1.2×
Declined
17%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3432015-2019
0.3822020-2024
+0.039
Within the margin of error
21%
Median household income
$54,9582015-2019
$59,1672020-2024
+7.7%
Within the margin of error
14%
Poverty rate
12.7%2015-2019
16.8%2020-2024
+4 points
Within the margin of error
16%
Rent as share of income
24.0%2015-2019
22.4%2020-2024
−1.6 points
Within the margin of error
67%
Unemployment rate
3.5%2015-2019
5.5%2020-2024
+2 points
Within the margin of error
17%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
6.9%2015-2019
6.9%2020-2024
+0 points
Within the margin of error
46%
“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.
For comparison, Trevorton, Pennsylvania itself moved −3.4 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.
Household income
756 households (±115)
Trevorton, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share
Under $25k16%†122
Under $25k
16%±6.2 points
122 households±51 (90% margin of error)
15%in Pennsylvania
15%in United States
−4.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k21%†159
$25k–50k
21%±6.4 points
159 households±54 (90% margin of error)
17%in Pennsylvania
17%in United States
−3.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k20%†148
$50k–75k
20%±6.6 points
148 households±54 (90% margin of error)
16%in Pennsylvania
16%in United States
−10.0 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k9.1%†69
$75k–100k
9.1%±4.1 points
69 households±33 (90% margin of error)
13%in Pennsylvania
13%in United States
−1.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k27%†207
$100k–150k
27%±10.6 points
207 households±86 (90% margin of error)
18%in Pennsylvania
18%in United States
+13.5 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k5.4%†41
$150k–200k
5.4%±2.5 points
41 households±20 (90% margin of error)
9.3%in Pennsylvania
9.6%in United States
+4.6 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more1.3%†10
$200k or more
1.3%±1.2 points
10 households±9 (90% margin of error)
12%in Pennsylvania
13%in United States
+1.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+13.5 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Northumberland County, the county holding most of Trevorton's residents.
Northumberland County has 1,611 employer establishments, 179 for every 10,000 residents (0.72× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Pennsylvania's), with 23,047 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,585. The Census Bureau also counts 5,069 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
1,611
5,069 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
179
US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees
23,047
Average annual pay
$49,585
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Northumberland County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 90,139 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.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
