Borough · York County, Pennsylvania

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania

Wrightsville is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, part of the York-Hanover, PA metro area. It has 1,869 residents. Wrightsville, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 56 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,866 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #625 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on flu vaccinations (high), primary care shortage (low) and mammography screening (high). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), effective property tax rate (high) and restaurants and bars (low).

56Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,866 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #625 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,869 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,851.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4286640

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.

Safety67#5,121/15,637
Economy52#7,541/15,631
Housing61#5,880/14,977
Health61#6,078/15,609
Healthcare60#6,218/15,650
Environment24#11,688/15,453
Education53#7,291/15,649
Infrastructure61#6,060/15,650
Community67#5,158/15,651
Leisure & amenities21#12,277/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Flu vaccinations · high54.0%
90/100Pennsylvania 52.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYork County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationYork County value
Mammography screening · high53.0%
85/100Pennsylvania 51.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYork County value
Dental care shortage · low0.0
84/100Pennsylvania 4.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationYork County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.7
81/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationYork County value
Hospital quality rating · high4.0
80/100Pennsylvania 3.5United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesYork County value

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high247 min
3/100Pennsylvania 191 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesYork County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.99%
8/100Pennsylvania 1.25%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Restaurants and bars · low5.1 /10k
11/100Pennsylvania 8.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsYork County value
Pharmacies · low1.1 /10k
20/100Pennsylvania 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsYork County value
Child care cost burden · high35.5%
21/100Pennsylvania 34.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYork County value
Public libraries · low0.3 /10k
21/100Pennsylvania 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesYork County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,419 (2015-2019) → 1,869 (2020-2024)
−23%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
38.1% (2015-2019) → 13.2% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.9% (2015-2019) → 94.1% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
18.5% (2015-2019) → 5.0% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
12.1% (2015-2019) → 19.6% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
High school diploma or higherImproving
86.7% (2015-2019) → 92.0% (2020-2024)
+5.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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

Broadband+17 points76.9% → 94.1%
Bachelor's++7.5 points12.1% → 19.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.6 min2015-2019	22.8 min2020-2024	+2.2 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.1%2015-2019	19.6%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Improved	82%
Broadband subscriptions	76.9%2015-2019	94.1%2020-2024	+17 points	Improved	85%
Effective property tax rate	1.97%2015-2019	1.99%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	14%
High school diploma or higher	86.7%2015-2019	92.0%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	48%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3592015-2019	0.3842020-2024	+0.026	Within the margin of error	30%
Median household income	$54,2052015-2019	$67,1982020-2024	+24%	Within the margin of error	42%
Rent as share of income	26.3%2015-2019	26.5%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Rent-burdened households	42.8%2015-2019	43.5%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.4%2015-2019	9.7%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	43%

“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 Wrightsville, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wrightsville, 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, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania itself moved +3 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

1,869 residents (±376)

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

769 households (±115)

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k8.8%†68
$25k–50k25%†190
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

769 households (±115)

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own68%522
Rent32%†247

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

1,005 workers (±225)

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone78%780
Carpool8.5%†85
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 York-Hanover, 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 York County, the county holding most of Wrightsville's residents.

York County has 8,840 employer establishments, 190 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.80× Pennsylvania's), with 176,202 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,540. The Census Bureau also counts 32,310 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 8,840; 32,310 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 190; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 176,202
Average annual pay: $54,540; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	634	13.6	0.88×About typical	7,048	$70,344	2,481
Restaurants and other eating places	624	13.4	0.73×Fewer than typical	12,035	$19,378	160
Ambulatory health care services	610	13.1	0.63×Fewer than typical	11,701	$79,601	1,159
Religious organizations	392	8.4	1.52×More than typical	2,882	$25,391	—
Limited-service restaurants	336	7.2	0.90×About typical	5,720	$17,590	75
Services to buildings and dwellings	315	6.8	1.00×About typical	2,020	$40,268	1,839
Automotive repair and maintenance	292	6.3	1.24×About typical	1,585	$45,325	488
Lessors of real estate	278	6	0.48×Fewer than typical	2,150	$50,262	3,246
Building equipment contractors	264	5.7	0.94×About typical	2,819	$72,561	520
Construction of buildings	252	5.4	0.72×Fewer than typical	2,417	$77,202	1,035
Personal care services	241	5.2	1.08×About typical	1,135	$28,485	1,325
Full-service restaurants	218	4.7	0.61×Fewer than typical	5,502	$21,329	61

Rank places for an industry Open York County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 466,068 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 $686 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania: $0.37 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $686; +17% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.37; US $1,994
Sole-source: 8.1%; US 30%
Single offer: 46%; 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$686100%

Top recipients

FRONT LINE MILITARY VEHICLES, INC$686100%

Spending by fiscal year

2.8KFY2017
1.6KFY2018
975.2FY2019
899FY2020
3.5KFY2021
721.4FY2022
1.2KFY2023
560.9FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$35952%
Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$10415%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$77.0211%
Motor vehicle parts manufacturing · 3363$63.779.3%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$49.157.2%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$33.15

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

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of York County, PA ($1.6B 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: Wrightsville is mostly in York County.

See federal money in York 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.

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

York County71100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

York-Hanover, PA65

Other cities and towns in York 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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