16335Meadville, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 16335.

61out of 100
Area Score
Top 48% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 43% of 6,210 published ZIP areas58
SchoolsTop 41% of 4,422 published ZIP areas58
Growth5398th of 5,428 published ZIP areas6
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
Climate5292nd of 6,789 published ZIP areas62
Physical resilienceTop 30% of 6,709 published ZIP areas75
Access4798th of 6,791 published ZIP areas85
Economic stability5662nd of 6,742 published ZIP areas37
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.9% and median household income $57,591, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

In the public schools here, 27% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 11.9 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 18% of median household income and the median home is 2.8 times it.

At a glance

Population
27,175
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$57,591
Bottom 26% nationally
Density
237/sq mi
114.5 sq mi of land
Median age
43.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Meadville
Pennsylvania
Metro area
Meadville, PA
Nearest major airport
ERI
31 mi · Erie Intl/Tom Ridge Fld
Median home value
$161,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.9% is lower than 71% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 4.1% over the past year, to 36,447 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,989$57,591Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,613$33,549Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate14.4%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.4 minBottom 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher25.8%Top 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment36,447Bottom 37%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.7%Bottom 23%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)4.1%Top 1%June 2026
Labor force37,915Bottom 37%June 2026
Labor force participation54.2%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.7%Bottom 13%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.9%Bottom 29%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202459k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $57,591 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Meadville, PA, the city containing this ZIP code.

27% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 48% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
27.1%
Top 48% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
47.8%
Bottom 48% in Pennsylvania
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Meadville Area SHSCrawford Central SD70814.4
Meadville MSCrawford Central SD34011.012%47%
First District El SchCrawford Central SD33412.440%51%
Neason Hill El SchCrawford Central SD33315.118%45%
Second District El SchCrawford Central SD31612.623%42%
West End El SchCrawford Central SD31012.444%55%
Crawford County Career and Technical CenterCrawford County Career & Technical Center160.8

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 $854 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
17.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$854
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$161,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.81Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate62.9%Bottom 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±39712,543Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$57$854Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,935$161,600Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.8%Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.9%Bottom 46%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 →
Development Momentum
6/ 100
Ranks 5398 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Meadville, PA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 80°F and January a low of 18°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.4 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PORT MEADVILLE AP, 3.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation41.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low18°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high80°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

75 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are strong wind, tornado and hurricane.

Winter weatherModerate
Strong windElevated
HurricaneModerate
TornadoModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, lightning, hail, ice storm, landslide, earthquake, wildfire, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Crawford County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 30.5 per 100,000 residents in Crawford County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
30.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.6
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 Crawford 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 16335 rather than 16335 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 31 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Erie Intl/Tom Ridge FldERI31 mi8,420 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG37 mi9,003 ft
Pittsburgh IntlPIT79 mi11,500 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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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
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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

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.

16335 vs Meadville

How this ZIP area compares with Meadville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

16335
Meadville
Median household income
$57,591
vs
$43,308
Per capita income
$33,549
vs
$25,450
Population density
237/sq mi
vs
2,883/sq mi
Median home value
$161,600
vs
$116,400
Median gross rent
$854
vs
$855
Homeownership rate
62.9%
vs
34.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.8%
vs
22.7%
Poverty rate
14.4%
vs
22.3%
Median age
43.7
vs
34.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.