Borough · Erie County, Pennsylvania

Wesleyville, Pennsylvania

Wesleyville is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, part of the Erie, PA metro area. It has 3,179 residents. Wesleyville, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 45 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,634 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #807 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on hot days (low), new business applications (high) and natural hazard risk (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), hospital quality rating (low) and broadband subscriptions (low).

45Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,634 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #807 of 997 in PA
Population: 3,179 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 5,999.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4282344

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety56#6,908/15,637
Economy21#12,314/15,631
Housing28#10,845/14,977
Health23#11,980/15,609
Healthcare67#5,117/15,650
Environment89#1,708/15,453
Education61#6,119/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,896/15,650
Community51#7,608/15,651
Leisure & amenities54#7,255/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Hot days · low1 days
97/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationErie County value
New business applications · high20.7 /1k
91/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauErie County value
Natural hazard risk · low5.6
91/100Pennsylvania 22.42025Federal Emergency Management AgencyErie County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationErie County value
Public transit commuters · high3.4%
89/100Pennsylvania 3.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Median Air Quality Index · low34
88/100Pennsylvania 432025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyErie County value

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high1.97%
8/100Pennsylvania 1.25%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Pennsylvania 3.5United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesErie County value
Broadband subscriptions · low83.2%
10/100Pennsylvania 89.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Rent as share of income · high37.3%
10/100Pennsylvania 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Adult smoking · high20.7%
10/100Pennsylvania 15.6%United States 16.1%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Distance to an airport · high89 mi
13/100Pennsylvania 36 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauErie County value

Trends

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

Child poverty rateImproving
43.1% (2015-2019) → 17.8% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
56.1% (2015-2019) → 72.8% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.5% (2015-2019) → 83.2% (2020-2024)
+6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
21.9% (2015-2019) → 16.0% (2020-2024)
−5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.478 (2015-2019) → 0.352 (2020-2024)
−26%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Median household incomeImproving
$42,614 (2015-2019) → $48,952 (2020-2024)
+15%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, Wesleyville, Pennsylvania improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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.

Improved2

Child poverty−25 points43.1% → 17.8%
Inequality−0.1260.478 → 0.352

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Wesleyville, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.0 min2015-2019	20.3 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.9%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Broadband subscriptions	76.5%2015-2019	83.2%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Child poverty rate	43.1%2015-2019	17.8%2020-2024	−25 points	Improved	96%
Effective property tax rate	2.31%2015-2019	1.97%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
High school diploma or higher	92.2%2015-2019	91.2%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	63%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4782015-2019	0.3522020-2024	−0.126	Improved	98%
Median household income	$42,6142015-2019	$48,9522020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	23%
Poverty rate	21.9%2015-2019	16.0%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Rent as share of income	37.8%2015-2019	37.3%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Rent-burdened households	56.1%2015-2019	72.8%2020-2024	+17 points	Within the margin of error	12%

“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 Wesleyville, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wesleyville, 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, Wesleyville, Pennsylvania itself moved +0.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

3,179 residents (±22)

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

1,376 households (±122)

Wesleyville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k18%†246
$25k–50k33%†455
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,376 households (±122)

Wesleyville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own70%962
Rent30%414

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,402 workers (±170)

Wesleyville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone82%1,151
Carpool4.6%†65
Public transit3.4%†48

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 Erie, 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 Erie County, the county holding most of Wesleyville's residents.

Erie County has 6,103 employer establishments, 228 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Pennsylvania's), with 114,339 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,456. The Census Bureau also counts 15,792 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,103; 15,792 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 228; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 114,339
Average annual pay: $51,456; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	537	20.1	0.96×About typical	9,335	$77,635	773
Restaurants and other eating places	458	17.1	0.93×About typical	8,442	$18,753	78
Specialty trade contractors	322	12	0.78×Fewer than typical	2,413	$66,105	1,002
Limited-service restaurants	211	7.9	0.98×About typical	4,075	$16,737	31
Religious organizations	193	7.2	1.30×More than typical	1,242	$23,357	—
Full-service restaurants	186	6.9	0.90×About typical	3,875	$20,481	32
Offices of physicians	183	6.8	1.06×About typical	4,136	$114,119	154
Services to buildings and dwellings	166	6.2	0.92×About typical	1,230	$35,686	756
Personal care services	165	6.2	1.29×More than typical	732	$27,152	496
Automotive repair and maintenance	159	5.9	1.18×About typical	674	$41,690	225
Offices of other health practitioners	151	5.6	0.93×About typical	871	$42,588	410
Lessors of real estate	148	5.5	0.45×Fewer than typical	596	$47,579	1,721

Rank places for an industry Open Erie County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 267,628 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 Wesleyville, Pennsylvania: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

4.7KFY2017
8.3KFY2018
9.8KFY2019
8.1KFY2020
10.4KFY2021
3KFY2022
674FY2023
1.1KFY2024
3.4KFY2025

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 Wesleyville, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Wesleyville, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Erie County, PA ($100.9M 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: Wesleyville is mostly in Erie County.

See federal money in Erie 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.

Wesleyville, 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.

Erie County70100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Erie, PA71

Other cities and towns in Erie 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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