
Pennsylvania · Census place 03480
Atwood, PA population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Atwood, Pennsylvania (Atwood, PA — Census place “Atwood borough”) is 161 residents, ranking #1781 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $46,786, the median home is worth $218,100 and median gross rent runs — a month. Looking for the Atwood Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Atwood, PA: 15732, 16249.
- Population
- 161Atwood borough residents
- Median household income
- $46,786Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $218,100Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- —Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 54.2 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 86.4%Owner-occupied households
Atwood ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Atwood.
The Atwood PA ZIP code list below covers 2 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Atwood borough
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
The median home costs 4.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 25.5% of residents and 86.4% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Atwood borough, PA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Atwood borough is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 161 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1781 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 54.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.
Households in Atwood borough earn a median of $46,786 a year, 40.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 34% below the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 25.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.
The typical owner-occupied home in Atwood borough is valued at $218,100, 28.1% below the national figure and 13% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 86.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.
A median age of 54.2 puts Atwood borough well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 161 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Atwood borough against its county rather than against national figures.
The Census withheld gross rent for Atwood borough because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Pennsylvania.
- Philadelphia city 1,582,432
- Pittsburgh city 303,620
- Allentown city 125,320
- Reading city 94,836
- Erie city 94,156
- Bethlehem city 77,069
- Scranton city 76,074
- Lancaster city 57,683
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Atwood borough?
- Atwood borough has 161 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #1781 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
- What is the median household income in Atwood borough?
- Median household income in Atwood borough is $46,786 a year, 40.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Atwood borough?
- Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $218,100.
- Is Atwood borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 4.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Atwood borough is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market.
- How current is this Atwood borough data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.