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Connellsville gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $123K, 1.6 years of the Pittsburgh metro’s $76K median household income. It grades C− overall, ranked 923rd of 1032 in Pennsylvania. The low prices come with trade-offs. It reports more crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, including 27 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025, and FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 79% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On the plus side, it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 94% of U.S. towns. History is its standout character grade: an A, better than 94% of U.S. towns, with 6 places on the National Register. Connellsville’s property crime rate is 22.8 per 1,000 residents, against 5.7 in Pennsylvania’s towns and 9.9 across U.S. towns.
Where Connellsville beats most towns.
Carnegie Free Library
Edwin Stanton Porter
Census counts: 996 in 1860, a peak of 13,804 in 1920, 7,031 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1891 and 4 maps from 1902 on.
6 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Connellsville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Connellsville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw10 mi MuseumFallingwater
Big draw36 mi National MemorialFlight 93 National Memorial286K visitors a year
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
30 mi Theme parkKennywood
37 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
10 mi National BattlefieldFort Necessity National Battlefield226K visitors a yearFallingwater: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Flight 93 National Memorial: James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Acrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Necessity National Battlefield: Wilson44691, CC0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Connellsville, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Connellsville.
Connellsville is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has homes that are cheap against local pay, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding).
Reported crimes fell from 297 to 219 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
The violent crime rate in Connellsville is 3.2 per 1,000 residents. Connellsville reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 88% report less.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its public schools are run by Connellsville Area SD. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Connellsville Area SHS, with 667 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connellsville Area MSLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 866 | C− |
| Connellsville Area SHSLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 667 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $493 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
Since 1978, 45 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Connellsville.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Connellsville has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 21° and about 24 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Connellsville has about as many jobs (2,776) as working residents, but only 436 people both live and work here.
Most working residents leave Connellsville for work: only 16% work in town. Connellsville’s median household income is $46,000. Since 2013, Connellsville has added 490 jobs, to 2,776 in 2023.
| Connellsville | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 16% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $46,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 5.8% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 16% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 4,264 U.S. towns with household incomes like Connellsville’s, it is healthier than 87%, so its C+ isn’t only a matter of income.
Connellsville beats the Pennsylvania average on 0 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 19% of Connellsville adults smoke cigarettes.
| Connellsville | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 79% | 79% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Connellsville | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 7.5% | 5.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.3% | 7.7% |
| More smokers | 18.5% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Connellsville | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.1% | 8.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Yough Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
At 1.6 years of the Pittsburgh metro’s $76K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 95% of Pennsylvania towns; that ratio is one input to its A for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $1,576, against $3,311 across Pennsylvania, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
54% of households own their home in Connellsville.
| Connellsville | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 54% | 78% | 73% |
| Median rent | $683 a month | $1,116 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
1 within 15 miles of the center of Connellsville
About 3 of every 100 Connellsville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
6 places in Connellsville on the National Register of Historic Places.
23 notable people were born in Connellsville.
City in the United States
Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, 36 miles (58 km) southeast of Pittsburgh and 50 miles (80 km) away via the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 7,031 at the 2020 census.
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3 towns share a border with Connellsville.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connellsville | #923 | C− | A | D | C− | C+ |
| Connellsville Township | — | — | A+ | — | C− | C |
| Dunbar Township | #919 | C− | A | — | C− | C |
| South Connellsville | — | — | A | — | C− | D |
Connellsville Township and South Connellsville have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Connellsville Township, Dunbar Township and South Connellsville report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Connellsville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Connellsville grades C− overall, better than 24% of U.S. towns and #923 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C+ for health, D for safety and C− for schools. Safety is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $123,000, 57% below the Pennsylvania typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.
23 notable people were born here, including Edwin Stanton Porter and John Woodruff.
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