Dry TavernPA
A town of 581.
Is Dry Tavern a good place to live?
27% of residents are 65 or older in Dry Tavern, against 21% in Pennsylvania’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns. Only 4 of the 1,036 Pennsylvania towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Dry Tavern. Dry Tavern has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
581 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Moving to Dry Tavern: who provides what
Dry Tavern is unincorporated, so Greene County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Dry Tavern.
Most of Dry Tavern’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.4 jobs for each of them
Dry Tavern’s average trip to work is 28 minutes. Most working residents leave Dry Tavern for work: only 1% work in town. Employers in Dry Tavern shed 152 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 101. 5.6% of residents live below the poverty line locally.
| Dry Tavern | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5.6% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Dry Tavern has four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 84° and January nights of 22°, with about 30 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Dry Tavern has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in just over three fifths of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 86% of Dry Tavern’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
How healthy Dry Tavern is
Among adults in Dry Tavern, 17% binge drink, below the Pennsylvania town median (18%) but above the median of U.S. towns (16%). On the CDC’s 26 measures, Dry Tavern is ahead of Pennsylvania on 2 and behind on 5. The share of adults in Dry Tavern who have high blood pressure: 38%.
| Dry Tavern | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 34% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 79% | 79% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 17% | 14% |
| What stands out | Dry Tavern | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 82.5% | 79.2% |
| More adults getting cholesterol checked | 87.7% | 85.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.1% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Fallingwater and 65 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Dry Tavern. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi MuseumFallingwater
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
32 mi Theme parkKennywood
35 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
35 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
20 mi Stadium & arenaMountaineer Field at Milan Puskar StadiumPhoto credits
Fallingwater: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Acrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
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Everything we know about Dry Tavern
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Dry Tavern
About 3 of every 100 Dry Tavern residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
99% of working residents leave Dry Tavern for work
Where Dry Tavern’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Dry Tavern
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US
Dry Tavern is a census-designated place in Jefferson Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located next to the borough of Rices Landing along Pennsylvania Route 88, on high ground south of the Monongahela River. As of the 2010 census the population was 697.
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- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,033 ft
Questions about Dry Tavern
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Dry Tavern, PA a good place to live?
Dry Tavern has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.