KelayresPA
With 413 residents, this town was settled in 1890.
Is Kelayres a good place to live?
Kelayres’ average commute is 15 minutes, below both Pennsylvania’s towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Among 1,038 Pennsylvania towns, just 10 have a lower peak summer temperature than Kelayres. Kelayres has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
413 people, and everyone knows the way
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Kelayres.
Kelayres stands out in Pennsylvania and nationally: the FEMA risk score there is lower
55% of Kelayres’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 10%. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 98% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With only 0.1 jobs per working resident, most people in Kelayres work out of town
The top destinations are Hazle Township (13%), Hazleton (6%) and Tamaqua (5%). Half the trips to work are shorter than 18 miles. The share of residents in Kelayres who live below the poverty line is 9.2%.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Kelayres: snowy winters and pleasant summers
The January low for Kelayres is 16°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Kelayres is
Among adults in Kelayres, 31% have high blood pressure and 26% have been diagnosed with depression. Of 26 CDC measures, Kelayres beats the Pennsylvania average on 2 and trails it on 1. Kelayres: a fifth of adults binge drink.
| Kelayres | Typical Pennsylvania town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 34% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | Kelayres | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 9.8% | 11.6% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 3.3% | 3.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 7.9% | 5.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Kelayres
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom and 38 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Kelayres. Close and well known come first.
33 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom26 mi Theme parkKnoebels Amusement Resort
39 mi National Historic SiteSteamtown National Historic Site61K visitors a year
35 mi Stadium & arenaPPL Center
33 mi State parkRicketts Glen State Park
19 mi State parkHickory Run State ParkPhoto credits
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Steamtown National Historic Site: National Park Service, Public domain · PPL Center: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ricketts Glen State Park: en:User:Msitler, Public domain · Hickory Run State Park: Mtruch, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Kelayres: who provides what
Kelayres is unincorporated, so Schuylkill 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.
100% of working residents leave Kelayres for work
Where Kelayres’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Kelayres
About 8 of every 100 Kelayres residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About Kelayres
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US
Kelayres is a census-designated place in Kline Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States on Broad Mountain, just west of McAdoo. Reservoir Number 8 is just west of Kelayres and drains northward into the Catawissa Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River. It is served by the Hazleton Area School District. The local pronunciation of the village is "Key-lar-es" and its ZIP code is 18231. As of the 2010 census the population was 533 residents. Kelayres is in area code 570, served by the 929 McAdoo exchange.
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- Area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,752 ft
- ZIP code
- 18231
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