15146Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 15146.

75out of 100
Area Score
Top 7% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 13% of 6,210 published ZIP areas76
SchoolsTop 18% of 4,422 published ZIP areas76
GrowthTop 49% of 5,428 published ZIP areas51
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
Climate4377th of 6,789 published ZIP areas65
Physical resilienceTop 21% of 6,709 published ZIP areas81
Access3796th of 6,791 published ZIP areas91
Economic stability4085th of 6,742 published ZIP areas54
The quick read

15146 ranks in the top 13% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.9% and median household income of $79,300.

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 2.6 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 15146 in the top 21% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
28,332
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$79,300
Top 39% nationally
Density
1,444/sq mi
19.6 sq mi of land
Median age
44.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Monroeville
Pennsylvania
Metro area
Pittsburgh, PA
Nearest major airport
LBE
21 mi · Arnold Palmer Rgnl
Median home value
$210,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Employment grew 2.4% over the past year, to 13,856 employed residents.

47% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,876$79,300Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,470$46,457Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.7%Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.4 minBottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher46.5%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment13,856Bottom 8%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.1%Top 34%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)2.4%Top 3%June 2026
Labor force14,413Bottom 8%June 2026
Labor force participation62.2%Top 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,230Bottom 39%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,650Bottom 43%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.6%Top 24%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.9%Bottom 29%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202481k75k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $79,300 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Monroeville, PA, the city containing this ZIP code.

39% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 59% 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
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
39.4%
Top 24% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
59.1%
Top 31% in Pennsylvania
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Gateway SHSGateway SD1,15214.8
Gateway MSGateway SD1,01712.422%57%
Ramsey El SchGateway SD33512.949%59%
University Park El SchGateway SD32813.764%69%
Evergreen El SchGateway SD31713.259%64%
Dr Cleveland Steward Jr El SchGateway SD29210.840%50%
Spectrum CS · charterSpectrum CS608.6
Forbes Road Career and Technology CenterForbes Road Career and Technology Center190.7

98.1% 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 $1,176 takes 18% 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
17.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,176
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$210,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.65Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate68.9%Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±59313,901Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$34$1,176Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$8,216$210,000Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.8%Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.9%Bottom 42%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
51/ 100
Top 49% 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.

100% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 2.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
80
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.8
Top 50% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
100.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Monroeville, 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 83°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 41.3 inches.

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 ALLEGHENY CO AP, 9.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index77.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation41.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°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, drought.

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.

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 15146 rather than 15146 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 21 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Arnold Palmer RgnlLBE21 mi8,222 ft
Pittsburgh IntlPIT25 mi11,500 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG75 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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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)
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
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.

15146 vs Monroeville

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

15146
Monroeville
Median household income
$79,300
vs
$79,218
Per capita income
$46,457
vs
$46,348
Population density
1,444/sq mi
vs
1,435/sq mi
Median home value
$210,000
vs
$209,800
Median gross rent
$1,176
vs
$1,175
Homeownership rate
68.9%
vs
68.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
46.5%
vs
46.4%
Poverty rate
10.7%
vs
10.7%
Median age
44.0
vs
44.0

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.