Carnot-Moon, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

13,534 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Carnot-Moon, in Allegheny County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 3% of 3,904 published cities84
SchoolsTop 9% of 2,668 published cities84
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
Climate2883rd of 4,223 published cities64
Physical resilienceTop 22% of 4,182 published cities81
AccessTop 19% of 4,226 published cities98
Economic stabilityTop 19% of 4,226 published cities74
The quick read

Carnot-Moon ranks in the top 3% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.6% and median household income of $100,714.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 14% of median household income and the median home is 2.6 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Carnot-Moon in the top 22% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
13,534
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$100,714
Top 18% nationally
Density
2,263/sq mi
6.0 sq mi of land
Median age
33.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania
Metro area
Pittsburgh, PA
Nearest major airport
PIT
2 mi · Pittsburgh Intl
Median home value
$264,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6% is lower than 80% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 2.4% over the past year, to 635,089 employed residents.

53% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 90% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$9,767$100,714Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$10,330$51,090Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.7%Bottom 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.6 minTop 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher52.8%Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment635,089Top 9%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.7%Top 25%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)2.4%Top 4%June 2026
Labor force659,117Top 9%June 2026
Labor force participation67.7%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,230Bottom 33%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,650Bottom 38%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.6%Bottom 14%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.6%Bottom 20%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024101k81k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $100,714 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Pittsburgh, PA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides37,200$29,250
General and Operations Managers31,020$100,840
Registered Nurses29,360$82,370
Retail Salespersons28,700$30,840
Fast Food and Counter Workers27,460$28,250
Cashiers20,950$29,470

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Allegheny County, PA, which contains this city.

48% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 69% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
47.8%
Top 16% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
68.5%
Top 9% in Pennsylvania
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Moon Area SHSMoon Area SD1,21113.9
David E Williams MSMontour SD95216.757%74%
Moon Area Lower MSMoon Area SD63912.547%72%
Moon Area Upper MSMoon Area SD62111.732%67%
Bon Meade El SchMoon Area SD57216.364%77%
J H Brooks El SchMoon Area SD38216.655%82%
Cornell El SchCornell SD28910.022%42%
Cornell HSCornell SD25210.55%25%
Richard J. Hyde El SchMoon Area SD23714.850%55%
McCormick El SchMoon Area SD22917.665%95%
J.A. Allard El SchMoon Area SD20913.964%65%

36.6% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Pennsylvania’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,214 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.6 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
14.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,214
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$264,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.62Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate63.4%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2915,190Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$67$1,214Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,567$264,200Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.5%Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.9%Bottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 83°F and January a low of 21°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 39.6 inches, including 44.1 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 52, in the Moderate band, and about 9 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PITTSBURGH INTL AP, 2.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index77.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation39.6"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall44.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low21°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high83°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10092024 calendar year
Median air quality index52.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
52
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
77
90th percentile index
Days above 100
9
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

81 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding and avalanche.

Inland floodingModerate
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, strong wind, ice storm, heat wave, lightning, winter weather, tornado, earthquake, landslide, hurricane, wildfire, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Allegheny County records 5.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 10.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 26.6 per 100,000 residents in Allegheny County.

Homicide
5.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
26.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Allegheny County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Carnot-Moon rather than Carnot-Moon itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 2 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Pittsburgh IntlPIT2 mi11,500 ft
Arnold Palmer RgnlLBE46 mi8,222 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG57 mi9,003 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Pittsburgh, PA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PittsburghAllegheny County304,75972vs Carnot-Moon
Bethel ParkAllegheny County32,88181vs Carnot-Moon
MonroevilleAllegheny County28,29575vs Carnot-Moon
PlumAllegheny County26,72375vs Carnot-Moon
Allison ParkAllegheny County22,045vs Carnot-Moon
New CastleLawrence County21,57951vs Carnot-Moon
BaldwinAllegheny County21,05772vs Carnot-Moon
MurrysvilleWestmoreland County20,81780vs Carnot-Moon
West MifflinAllegheny County19,19064vs Carnot-Moon
McKeesportAllegheny County17,38055vs Carnot-Moon
Franklin ParkAllegheny County15,23582vs Carnot-Moon
WhitehallAllegheny County14,81172vs Carnot-Moon

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Carnot-Moon

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1510842,799$100,859