Borough · Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Westmont, Pennsylvania

Westmont is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, part of the Johnstown, PA metro area. It has 4,855 residents. Westmont, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 64 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,598 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #450 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), home price to income ratio (low) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on injury deaths (high), new business applications (low) and effective property tax rate (high).

64High

Quality-of-life score: #5,598 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #450 of 997 in PA
Population: 4,855 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 2,083.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4283584

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.

Safety39#9,494/15,637
Economy46#8,487/15,631
Housing49#7,709/14,977
Health52#7,432/15,609
Healthcare42#9,027/15,650
Environment65#5,328/15,453
Education84#2,430/15,649
Infrastructure73#4,240/15,650
Community80#3,158/15,651
Leisure & amenities50#7,859/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Social associations · high20.5 /10k
98/100Pennsylvania 11.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCambria County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.7×
97/100Pennsylvania 3.3×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Hot days · low1 days
96/100Pennsylvania 7 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCambria County value
Broadband subscriptions · high98.0%
95/100Pennsylvania 89.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Natural hazard risk · low3.7
95/100Pennsylvania 22.42025Federal Emergency Management AgencyCambria County value
Child poverty rate · low0.0%
94/100Pennsylvania 15.3%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

Weaknesses

Injury deaths · high143 /100k
5/100Pennsylvania 98 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCambria County value
New business applications · low7.8 /1k
6/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauCambria County value
Effective property tax rate · high2.11%
6/100Pennsylvania 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 ServicesCambria County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Pennsylvania 2.0 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Comfortable days · low23.5%
13/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCambria County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
35.4% (2015-2019) → 61.8% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
14.2% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.3% (2015-2019) → 98.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$70,733 (2015-2019) → $108,988 (2020-2024)
+54%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
51.5% (2015-2019) → 58.5% (2020-2024)
+7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Home price to income ratioImproving
2.2× (2015-2019) → 1.7× (2020-2024)
−26%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Westmont, 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

Price / income−0.6×2.2× → 1.7×
Household income+54%$70,733 → $108,988
Broadband+14 points84.3% → 98.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Westmont, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.9 min2015-2019	22.2 min2020-2024	+1.3 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	51.5%2015-2019	58.5%2020-2024	+7 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Broadband subscriptions	84.3%2015-2019	98.0%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	75%
Effective property tax rate	2.41%2015-2019	2.11%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	74%
High school diploma or higher	98.0%2015-2019	98.2%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	1.7×2020-2024	−0.6×	Improved	94%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3892015-2019	0.4342020-2024	+0.045	Within the margin of error	19%
Median household income	$70,7332015-2019	$108,9882020-2024	+54%	Improved	87%
Rent as share of income	27.4%2015-2019	31.7%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	25%

“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 Westmont, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Westmont, 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, Westmont, Pennsylvania itself moved +0.2 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

4,855 residents (±27)

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

2,001 households (±163)

Westmont, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k4.3%†87
$25k–50k18%†365
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,001 households (±163)

Westmont, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own91%1,823
Rent8.9%†178

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+10.3 points).

† 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

2,184 workers (±190)

Westmont, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone68%1,475
Carpool9.0%†196
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 Johnstown, 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 Cambria County, the county holding most of Westmont's residents.

Cambria County has 2,996 employer establishments, 229 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Pennsylvania's), with 43,601 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,966. The Census Bureau also counts 6,556 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,996; 6,556 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 229; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 43,601
Average annual pay: $43,966; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	257	19.7	0.94×About typical	3,460	$67,835	338
Restaurants and other eating places	189	14.5	0.79×Fewer than typical	3,169	$15,152	32
Religious organizations	155	11.9	2.14×More than typical	736	$15,245	—
Specialty trade contractors	140	10.7	0.69×Fewer than typical	1,013	$77,396	497
Banks and credit unions	93	7.1	2.20×More than typical	847	$52,438	—
Offices of other health practitioners	89	6.8	1.12×About typical	774	$40,425	149
Automotive repair and maintenance	87	6.7	1.32×More than typical	360	$40,342	148
Full-service restaurants	87	6.7	0.87×About typical	1,725	$14,896	20
Limited-service restaurants	86	6.6	0.82×About typical	1,286	$15,375	12
Civic and social organizations	73	5.6	7.62×More than typical	451	$10,470	—
Offices of physicians	70	5.4	0.83×About typical	1,348	$104,346	70
Truck transportation	66	5.1	1.00×About typical	647	$60,241	126

Rank places for an industry Open Cambria County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 130,590 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 $1,397 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Westmont, Pennsylvania: $0.29 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,397; −89% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.29; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 89%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$1,397100%

Top recipients

BB&G ENTERPRISES INC$1,23789%
C&J RESOLUTIONS LLC$17813%
TRADEBE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, LLC-$18.480.0%

Spending by fiscal year

9.1KFY2017
59.2KFY2018
13.3KFY2019
59.7KFY2020
66.1KFY2021
-21.8KFY2022
31.7KFY2023
128.3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$1,415100%

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

Westmont, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Cambria County, PA ($237.5M 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: Westmont is mostly in Cambria County.

See federal money in Cambria 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.

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

House

John JoyceR-PA-13 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.1%

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.

Cambria County64100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Johnstown, PA56

Other cities and towns in Cambria 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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