Wanamie, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Wanamie CDP is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 762 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1116 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 44% of them. The median age here is 41.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Wanamie CDP earn a median of $49,700 a year, 36.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% below the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 26.8% 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 Wanamie CDP is valued at $157,600, 48.1% below the national figure and 18% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,263 a month, 10.2% below the national figure, or roughly $15,156 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 84.3% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Wanamie CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.5% of median income while homes cost only 3.2× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 762 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Wanamie CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.