Census-designated place · Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

Yeagertown, Pennsylvania

Yeagertown is a census-designated place in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, part of the Lewistown, PA metro area. It has 1,165 residents. Yeagertown, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 48 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,212 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #762 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), hospital quality rating (high) and mammography screening (high). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and comfortable days (low).

48Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,212 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #762 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,165 (2020-2024)
Land area: 0 mi²
Density: 2,593.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4286976

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.

Safety84#2,552/15,637
Economy56#6,859/15,631
Housing71#4,370/14,977
Health45#8,528/15,609
Healthcare47#8,239/15,650
Environment38#9,574/15,453
Education34#10,357/15,649
Infrastructure34#10,277/15,650
Community39#9,555/15,651
Leisure & amenities36#9,938/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Home price to income ratio · low1.1×
100/100Pennsylvania 3.3×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Pennsylvania 3.5United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMifflin County value
Mammography screening · high59.0%
98/100Pennsylvania 51.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMifflin County value
Grocery stores · high3.0 /10k
94/100Pennsylvania 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMifflin County value
Poverty rate · low2.3%
94/100Pennsylvania 11.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Distance to an Amtrak station · low6 mi
94/100Pennsylvania 21 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMifflin County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low7.0 /1k
2/100Pennsylvania 12.4 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauMifflin County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.1 /10k
3/100Pennsylvania 4.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMifflin County value
Comfortable days · low23.3%
10/100Pennsylvania 23.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMifflin County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Pennsylvania 1.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMifflin County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low11.4%
12/100Pennsylvania 35.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Dentists · low35 /100k
16/100Pennsylvania 73 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMifflin County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
917 (2015-2019) → 1,165 (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
38.2% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−38 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
18.8% (2015-2019) → 33.8% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeImproving
23.2 min (2015-2019) → 13.2 min (2020-2024)
−43%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Home price to income ratioImproving
1.8× (2015-2019) → 1.1× (2020-2024)
−41%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
19.4% (2015-2019) → 27.4% (2020-2024)
+8 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, Yeagertown, Pennsylvania improved on 1 of 7 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.

Improved1

Price / income−0.7×1.8× → 1.1×

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	73.7%2015-2019	74.1%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	10%
High school diploma or higher	84.8%2015-2019	85.2%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	1.1×2020-2024	−0.7×	Improved	96%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3002015-2019	0.3592020-2024	+0.059	Within the margin of error	13%
Median household income	$50,8212015-2019	$62,3412020-2024	+23%	Within the margin of error	39%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	19.4%2015-2019	27.4%2020-2024	+8 points	Within the margin of error	13%

“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 Yeagertown, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Yeagertown, 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, Yeagertown, Pennsylvania itself moved −11.1 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

1,165 residents (±483)

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

549 households (±218)

Yeagertown, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k13%†74
$25k–50k17%†92
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

549 households (±218)

Yeagertown, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own76%†419
Rent24%†130

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

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

640 workers (±330)

Yeagertown, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone80%†512
Carpool6.6%†42
Public transit

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 Lewistown, 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 Mifflin County, the county holding most of Yeagertown's residents.

Mifflin County has 1,015 employer establishments, 221 for every 10,000 residents (0.89× the US rate of 248; 0.94× Pennsylvania's), with 14,987 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,583. The Census Bureau also counts 3,029 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,015; 3,029 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 221; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 14,987
Average annual pay: $50,583; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	79	17.2	1.11×About typical	662	$65,841	306
Ambulatory health care services	71	15.4	0.74×Fewer than typical	1,111	$84,276	72
Restaurants and other eating places	67	14.6	0.79×Fewer than typical	1,261	$17,187	6
Religious organizations	56	12.2	2.20×More than typical	293	$16,939	—
Construction of buildings	38	8.3	1.09×About typical	114	$37,447	104
Truck transportation	38	8.3	1.63×More than typical	313	$63,019	122
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	35	7.6	2.42×More than typical	416	$74,865	47
Offices of physicians	33	7.2	1.11×About typical	474	$122,525	9
Full-service restaurants	30	6.5	0.85×About typical	620	$16,473	—
Limited-service restaurants	27	5.9	0.73×Fewer than typical	525	$17,669	3
Automotive repair and maintenance	24	5.2	1.04×About typical	94	$39,968	54
Banks and credit unions	23	5	1.55×More than typical	251	$58,422	—

Rank places for an industry Open Mifflin County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 45,976 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 Yeagertown, Pennsylvania: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
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

55.4KFY2018
4.6KFY2019
2.8KFY2023

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

Yeagertown, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Mifflin County, PA ($600K 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: Yeagertown is mostly in Mifflin County.

See federal money in Mifflin 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.

Yeagertown, 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.

Mifflin County50100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lewistown, PA40

Other cities and towns in Mifflin 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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