Wattsburg, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Wattsburg borough is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 340 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1535 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 37.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Wattsburg borough earn a median of $44,875 a year, 42.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 37% below the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 43.1% 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 Wattsburg borough is valued at $101,700, 66.5% below the national figure and 47% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,150 a month, 18.2% below the national figure, or roughly $13,800 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.8% 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 2.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 69.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Wattsburg borough is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.8% of median income while homes cost only 2.3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 340 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Wattsburg borough against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.