Metro area · Pennsylvania

Lebanon, PA metro area

Lebanon, PA is a metropolitan area of 1 county in Pennsylvania, home to 146,380 residents. Lebanon, PA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 65 out of 100 (high), ranking #326 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Pennsylvania it ranks #14 of 36. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), firearm deaths (low) and flu vaccinations (high). It ranks worst on restaurants and bars (low), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and public EV charging ports (low).

65High
Quality-of-life score
#326 of 925 metro and micro areas
Pennsylvania
#14 of 36 in PA
Population
146,380 (2025)
Land area
362 mi²
Density
404.5 /mi²
CBSA code
30140

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 Lebanon, PA metro area

Scores by category

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

  • Safety95#50/924
  • Economy70#276/925
  • Housing39#564/925
  • Health77#212/925
  • Healthcare65#324/923
  • Environment14#791/917
  • Education38#571/925
  • Infrastructure58#388/925
  • Community84#153/925
  • Leisure & amenities44#518/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Lebanon, PA metro 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 Lebanon, PA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lebanon, PA metro 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 Lebanon, 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. Lebanon CountyCentral county73146,380

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. LebanonPrincipal city26,536

Largest cities and towns

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

  1. Lebanon26,536
  2. Palmyra7,755
  3. Campbelltown6,092
  4. Annville4,915
  5. Cornwall4,623
  6. Newmanstown3,227
  7. Pleasant Hill3,128
  8. Myerstown3,124
  9. Sand Hill2,513
  10. Lebanon South2,374
  11. Jonestown1,893
  12. Cleona1,882
  13. Richland1,547
  14. West Myerstown1,465
  15. Avon1,397
  16. Fredericksburg1,226
  17. Hebron1,125
  18. Schaefferstown942
  19. Quentin720
  20. Mount Gretna Heights325
  21. Timber Hills306
  22. Mount Gretna208
  23. Fort Indiantown Gap0

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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