Micro area · Pennsylvania

East Stroudsburg, PA micropolitan area

East Stroudsburg, PA is a micropolitan area of 1 county in Pennsylvania, home to 167,179 residents. East Stroudsburg, PA micropolitan area has a quality-of-life score of 60 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #374 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Pennsylvania it ranks #20 of 36. It ranks best on public transit commuters (high), firearm deaths (low) and suicide rate (low). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), child care cost burden (high) and effective property tax rate (high).

60Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#374 of 925 metro and micro areas
Pennsylvania
#20 of 36 in PA
Population
167,179 (2025)
Land area
608 mi²
Density
274.8 /mi²
CBSA code
20700

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 66 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of East Stroudsburg, PA micropolitan area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety90#89/924
  • Economy64#333/925
  • Housing8#850/925
  • Health77#211/925
  • Healthcare35#602/923
  • Environment65#322/917
  • Education53#439/925
  • Infrastructure66#313/925
  • Community40#555/925
  • Leisure & amenities61#358/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where East Stroudsburg, PA micropolitan area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like East Stroudsburg, PA micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of East Stroudsburg, PA micropolitan area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in East Stroudsburg, PA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Monroe CountyCentral county70167,179

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. East StroudsburgPrincipal city9,319

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. East Stroudsburg9,319
  2. Arlington Heights6,847
  3. Sierra View6,365
  4. Stroudsburg5,894
  5. Indian Mountain Lake3,889
  6. Penn Estates3,659
  7. Mount Pocono3,072
  8. Emerald Lakes2,716
  9. Sun Valley2,529
  10. Brodheadsville1,774
  11. Effort1,743
  12. Pocono Pines953
  13. Mountainhome887
  14. Saylorsburg804
  15. Delaware Water Gap738
  16. Gouldsboro713

Other metro and micro areas in Pennsylvania

Areas based in Pennsylvania, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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