Wright TownshipPA
A town of 5,938, settled in 1866.
Is Wright Township a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Wright Township grades A− overall, 289th among Pennsylvania's 1032 graded towns. It reports less crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns and its schools rank ahead of 82% of Pennsylvania towns. What holds it back is price: homes are expensive, about $295K for a typical one and 4.5 times the Scranton metro’s $65K median household income. 27% of the land in Wright Township is conserved, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 8.2% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Only 91 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns score lower on walkability. State Game Lands Number 187, at 1,200 acres with 4 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
What makes Wright Township stand out
Where Wright Township beats most towns.
Jobs vs. working residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Every workday, about 4,114 people come to Wright Township for work
Where Wright Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Wright Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Wright Township is from typical.
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Moving to Wright Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wright Township, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Wright Township.
Wright Township draws workers from Wilkes-Barre and beyond, has less tooth loss than most of Pennsylvania and is safe by national standards but not by Pennsylvania’s.
Wright Township has set aside nearly a quarter of its land for conservation
17 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. Wright Township’s trail density is 1.3 miles per square mile, against 0.4 in Pennsylvania’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pinchot State Forest | 7.6 mi | 949 |
| 2. State Game Lands Number 187 | 4 mi | 1,200 |
| 3. Wright Township Community Park | 1.9 mi | 41 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Wright Township’s grade for schools is an A−
Its public schools are run by Crestwood SD. Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is Crestwood Secondary Campus, with 1,379 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Jude School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 281 | – |
| Crestwood Secondary CampusLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 1,379 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
About one in nine working residents works right in Wright Township
4,393 jobs are based in Wright Township, 1.8 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 2,939 in 2013 to 4,393.
Most working residents leave Wright Township for work: only 11% work in town. Wright Township’s median household income is $124,000. Since 2013, Wright Township has added 1,454 jobs, to 4,393 in 2023.
| Wright Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $124,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 7.3% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Wright Township’s grade for safety is an A
At 5.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 76% of Pennsylvania’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2025, 0.3 per 1,000 residents.
The property crime rate in Wright Township is 3.7 per 1,000 residents.
| Wright Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 3.7 per 1,000 residents | 5.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.3 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Inland flooding leads a very low hazard risk in Wright Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 89% of U.S. communities. Since 2004, 23 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Wright Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Wright Township ranks healthier than 81% of the country’s towns
Its widest gap with Pennsylvania is tooth loss: 6.9% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 14.5% statewide. Against the 5,170 U.S. towns with household incomes like Wright Township’s, it is healthier than 53%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Wright Township beats the Pennsylvania average on 9 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 14% of adults report frequent mental distress in Wright Township.
| Wright Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 19% | 19% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 14% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Wright Township | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.9% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults in fair or poor health | 14.7% | 18.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Wright Township, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Wright Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 80°, January nights drop to 16° and about 46 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer young adults than Pennsylvania overall
The median household earns $124,000, against $77,971 across Pennsylvania, one input to its A− for jobs and income.
Adults 18 to 34 are 15% of residents (22% statewide). 37% of Wright Township adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Wright Township has grown 3% since 2020, to 5,938 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Wright Township | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.4 years | 43.2 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 29% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 22% | 21% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 21% | 20% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.2 points. Across Pennsylvania, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Wright Township | PA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 10.8% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.2% | 9.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5% | 9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.6% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.5% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 18.8% | 11.9% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.6% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.5% | 11.4% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.8% | 8.1% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.2% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.2% | 32.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.4% | 15.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 16.4% | 8.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.1% | 20.9% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.8% | 14.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Knoebels Amusement Resort and 22 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wright Township. Close and well known come first.
23 mi National Historic SiteSteamtown National Historic Site61K visitors a year
40 mi LakeLake Wallenpaupack
24 mi State parkRicketts Glen State Park
13 mi State parkHickory Run State Park
29 mi Ski areaCamelback Mountain Resort37 runs · 804 ft verticalPhoto credits
Steamtown National Historic Site: National Park Service, Public domain · Lake Wallenpaupack: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ricketts Glen State Park: en:User:Msitler, Public domain · Hickory Run State Park: Mtruch, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Camelback Mountain Resort: Calzarette at en.wikipedia, Public domain
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Everything we know about Wright Township
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Wright Township
About 4 of every 100 Wright Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
About Wright Township
Township in Pennsylvania, US
Wright Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,726 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 13 sq mi
Wright Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Wright Township.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Township | #289 | A− | C− | A | A− | A− |
| Rice Township | #282 | A− | D | A | A− | A− |
| Mountain Top | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fairview Township | #95 | A+ | C+ | A+ | A− | A− |
| Dennison Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dorrance Township | — | — | C− | — | A− | B+ |
Dorrance Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Dorrance Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Mountain Top and Dennison Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wright Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Wright Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Wright Township, PA a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Wright Township grades A− overall, better than 84% of U.S. towns and #289 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades A− for health, A for safety and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Wright Township, PA expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.