Census-designated place · Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates is a census-designated place in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It has 1,232 residents. Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 76 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,709 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #266 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on math scores (high), rent as share of income (low) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), hospital quality rating (low) and comfortable days (low).

76High

Quality-of-life score: #3,709 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #266 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,232 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 713.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4280652

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.

Safety81#3,009/15,637
Economy40#9,403/15,631
Housing89#1,592/14,977
Health59#6,374/15,609
Healthcare37#9,813/15,650
Environment87#2,084/15,453
Education94#905/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,987/15,650
Community69#4,842/15,651
Leisure & amenities90#1,534/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Wayne 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

Math scores · high3.64
99/100Pennsylvania 3.12United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWayne County value
Rent as share of income · low17.9%
99/100Pennsylvania 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Hot days · low2 days
93/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWayne County value
Violent crime rate · low71 /100k
93/100Pennsylvania 227 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWayne County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Pennsylvania 0.9United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationWayne County value
Property crime rate · low475 /100k
91/100Pennsylvania 1,324 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWayne County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high14.2%
3/100Pennsylvania 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Pennsylvania 3.5United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWayne County value
Comfortable days · low23.5%
13/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWayne County value
Distance to an airport · high84 mi
16/100Pennsylvania 36 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauWayne County value
Time spent in the emergency room · high212 min
16/100Pennsylvania 191 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWayne County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high72 mi
17/100Pennsylvania 21 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauWayne County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,122 (2015-2019) → 1,232 (2020-2024)
+9.8%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
17.4% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 16.6% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
19.8% (2015-2019) → 31.8% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Unemployment rateWorsening
3.5% (2015-2019) → 14.2% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
28.0% (2015-2019) → 17.9% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%

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, Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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

Rent / income−10 points28.0% → 17.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.8%2015-2019	31.8%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Broadband subscriptions	89.4%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	+3.2 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	1.31%2015-2019	1.07%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	65%
High school diploma or higher	95.1%2015-2019	97.7%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	−0.0×	Within the margin of error	81%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3362015-2019	0.4202020-2024	+0.084	Within the margin of error	7%
Median household income	$64,5832015-2019	$86,9172020-2024	+35%	Within the margin of error	65%
Rent as share of income	28.0%2015-2019	17.9%2020-2024	−10 points	Improved	93%

“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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, 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, Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania itself moved +4.5 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

1,232 residents (±234)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 70–79 women (−9.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,232 residents (±234)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

White83%1,021
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino9.3%†114

Education

1,005 residents (±164)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

No high school diploma2.3%†23
High school or GED23%236
Some college25%†253

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

549 households (±90)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k11%†62
$25k–50k22%†120
$50k–75k13%†74
$75k–100k10%†55
$100k–150k20%†111
$150k–200k14%†75
$200k or more9.5%†52

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $200k or more (+9.5 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

549 households (±90)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own86%472
Rent14%†77

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

68 households (±55)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,00024%†16
$1,000–1,5000.0%0

Home values

472 homes (±104)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $150k16%†77
$150k–250k36%†172
$250k–400k26%†

Age of homes

1,517 homes (±198)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

2010 or later3.6%†54
2000–200911%†173
1980–199950%754

Size of homes

1,517 homes (±198)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.0%0
2 bedrooms20%†307

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

494 workers (±121)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone63%†310
Carpool6.9%†34
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home30%†150
Other0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+26.5 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

344 workers (±115)

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under 15 min0.6%†2
15–29 min34%†118
30–44 min28%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Wayne County, the county holding most of Wallenpaupack Lake Estates's residents.

Wayne County has 1,355 employer establishments, 264 for every 10,000 residents (1.06× the US rate of 248; 1.12× Pennsylvania's), with 13,374 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,102. The Census Bureau also counts 4,364 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,355; 4,364 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 264; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 13,374
Average annual pay: $46,102; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	121	23.5	1.52×More than typical	653	$67,730	528
Restaurants and other eating places	95	18.5	1.01×About typical	987	$19,179	17
Ambulatory health care services	83	16.2	0.78×Fewer than typical	772	$67,224	164
Full-service restaurants	59	11.5	1.50×More than typical	540	$17,891	7
Construction of buildings	57	11.1	1.47×More than typical	239	$53,188	247
Services to buildings and dwellings	56	10.9	1.62×More than typical	313	$26,939	287
Automotive repair and maintenance	45	8.8	1.74×More than typical	172	$37,070	109
Religious organizations	45	8.8	1.58×More than typical	269	$22,294	—
Landscaping services	42	8.2	2.33×More than typical	100	$43,500	102
Building equipment contractors	38	7.4	1.23×About typical	190	$50,889	108
RV parks and recreational camps	38	7.4	31.2×More than typical	277	$115,852	7
Lessors of real estate	37	7.2	0.58×Fewer than typical	79	$49,304	505

Rank places for an industry Open Wayne County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 51,385 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
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

22.6FY2017
11.8FY2019

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Wayne County, PA ($12.9M 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: Wallenpaupack Lake Estates is mostly in Wayne County.

See federal money in Wayne 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.

Wallenpaupack Lake Estates, Pennsylvania is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.R-PA-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 92%Missed 0.9%

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.

Wayne County70100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Wayne 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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