Census-designated place · Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Trexlertown, Pennsylvania

Trexlertown is a census-designated place in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area. It has 2,416 residents. Trexlertown, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 88 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,850 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #113 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), broadband subscriptions (high) and poverty rate (low). It ranks worst on child care cost burden (high), public libraries (low) and drought exposure (high).

88Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,850 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #113 of 997 in PA
Population: 2,416 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,163.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4277488

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.

Safety69#4,910/15,637
Economy86#2,267/15,631
Housing74#3,860/14,977
Health85#2,418/15,609
Healthcare96#577/15,650
Environment45#8,500/15,453
Education74#4,031/15,649
Infrastructure95#731/15,650
Community65#5,488/15,651
Leisure & amenities40#9,333/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.282
100/100Pennsylvania 0.474United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100Pennsylvania 89.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Poverty rate · low0.7%
99/100Pennsylvania 11.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.8%
98/100Pennsylvania 7.2%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Flu vaccinations · high57.0%
97/100Pennsylvania 52.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLehigh County value
Frequent mental distress · low13.7%
96/100Pennsylvania 15.9%United States 18.6%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Child care cost burden · high43.7%
3/100Pennsylvania 34.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLehigh County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
14/100Pennsylvania 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLehigh County value
Drought exposure · high75%
17/100Pennsylvania 26%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAALehigh County value
Comfortable days · low23.7%
18/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLehigh County value
Job growth · low-1.3%
22/100Pennsylvania -0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLehigh County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high39 mi
33/100Pennsylvania 21 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLehigh County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,964 (2015-2019) → 2,416 (2020-2024)
+23%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$65,652 (2015-2019) → $109,792 (2020-2024)
+67%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeImproving
35.8 min (2015-2019) → 17.3 min (2020-2024)
−52%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
90.7% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+9.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
7.3% (2015-2019) → 0.8% (2020-2024)
−6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
46.2% (2015-2019) → 40.3% (2020-2024)
−5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Trexlertown, Pennsylvania improved on 3 of 9 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.

Improved3

Household income+67%$65,652 → $109,792
Inequality−0.0840.365 → 0.282
Broadband+9.3 points90.7% → 100.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Trexlertown, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	35.8 min2015-2019	17.3 min2020-2024	−18.5 min	Within the margin of error	100%
Bachelor's degree or higher	53.8%2015-2019	55.2%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Broadband subscriptions	90.7%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+9.3 points	Improved	56%
High school diploma or higher	96.3%2015-2019	97.5%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	−0.4×	Within the margin of error	92%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3652015-2019	0.2822020-2024	−0.084	Improved	93%
Median household income	$65,6522015-2019	$109,7922020-2024	+67%	Improved	93%
Rent as share of income	28.6%2015-2019	24.9%2020-2024	−3.7 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Rent-burdened households	46.2%2015-2019	40.3%2020-2024	−5.8 points	Within the margin of error	74%

“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 Trexlertown, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Trexlertown, 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, Trexlertown, Pennsylvania itself moved +23 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.

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

2,416 residents (±598)

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

1,037 households (±231)

Trexlertown, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k3.8%†39
$25k–50k1.4%†14
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,037 households (±231)

Trexlertown, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own33%†343
Rent67%†694

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

1,466 workers (±409)

Trexlertown, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone74%1,083
Carpool1.8%†26
Public transit1.6%†24

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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

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 Lehigh County, the county holding most of Trexlertown's residents.

Lehigh County has 8,681 employer establishments, 228 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Pennsylvania's), with 201,146 paid employees at an average annual pay of $63,513. The Census Bureau also counts 31,152 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 8,681; 31,152 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 228; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 201,146
Average annual pay: $63,513; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	831	21.9	1.05×About typical	17,784	$90,683	1,429
Restaurants and other eating places	617	16.2	0.88×About typical	10,284	$21,320	245
Specialty trade contractors	459	12.1	0.78×Fewer than typical	5,606	$76,082	1,694
Offices of physicians	336	8.8	1.37×More than typical	10,928	$117,767	290
Lessors of real estate	301	7.9	0.64×Fewer than typical	1,303	$53,091	3,075
Limited-service restaurants	289	7.6	0.95×About typical	4,191	$19,157	81
Truck transportation	284	7.5	1.48×More than typical	2,507	$68,611	1,242
Personal care services	258	6.8	1.42×More than typical	1,276	$28,278	1,282
Full-service restaurants	255	6.7	0.87×About typical	5,209	$23,654	131
Services to buildings and dwellings	247	6.5	0.96×About typical	3,592	$41,957	1,684
Religious organizations	225	5.9	1.07×About typical	1,806	$27,181	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	213	5.6	1.11×About typical	1,194	$48,225	396

Rank places for an industry Open Lehigh County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 380,068 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 $517.5K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania: $214 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $517.5K; −7.3% vs FY2025
Per resident: $214; US $1,995
Sole-source: 0.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 30%; 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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$370K72%
Defense Logistics Agency$143.8K28%
Department of Veterans Affairs$2,9510.6%
Department of the Air Force$6940.1%

Top recipients

AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC$516.8K99.9%
SOLAR TECHNOLOGY, INC.$6940.1%
MACK DEFENSE LLC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

294.5KFY2017
285.1KFY2018
919KFY2019
450.6KFY2020
1.4MFY2021
762.8KFY2022
2.2MFY2023
616.3K

Top industries (NAICS)

Basic chemical manufacturing · 3251$516.8K99.9%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$6940.1%

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Trexlertown, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Lehigh County, PA ($241.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

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

See federal money in Lehigh 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.

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

House

Ryan MackenzieR-PA-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 94%Missed 1.9%

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.

Lehigh County70100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ74

Other cities and towns in Lehigh 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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