Cheswick vs Wilmerding

A side-by-side comparison of Cheswick and Wilmerding: population, income, housing, and more.

Cheswick and Wilmerding are places in Pennsylvania. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Wilmerding has the higher population (1,781 vs 1,704 in Cheswick). Cheswick has the higher median household income ($75,385 vs $37,764 in Wilmerding). Cheswick has the higher median home value ($174,000 vs $65,000 in Wilmerding).

Population, income & housing

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
Population	1,704	1,781
Median age	45.8 yrs	36.9 yrs
Median household income	$75,385	$37,764
Median home value	$174,000	$65,000
Median gross rent	$1,125	$773
Housing units	866	1,161
Homeownership rate	80.4%	40.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	39.1%	15.1%
Unemployment rate	9.2%	17.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
Population	1,697 → 1,704 (+0.4%)	1,860 → 1,781 (-4.2%)
Median household income	$62,500 → $75,385 (+20.6%)	$27,113 → $37,764 (+39.3%)
Median home value	$125,500 → $174,000 (+38.6%)	$53,300 → $65,000 (+22.0%)
Median gross rent	$940 → $1,125 (+19.7%)	$705 → $773 (+9.6%)

Cheswick

Population

1,6971,704

Median household income

$62,500$75,385

Median home value

$125,500$174,000

Median gross rent

$940$1,125

Wilmerding

Population

1,8601,781

Median household income

$27,113$37,764

Median home value

$53,300$65,000

Median gross rent

$705$773

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
Under 5	4.8%	5.6%
5 to 17	11.4%	13.6%
18 to 24	4.0%	5.7%
25 to 34	16.4%	19.1%
35 to 44	10.9%	14.6%
45 to 54	12.4%	12.9%
55 to 64	11.7%	14.2%
65 to 74	14.1%	9.8%
75 and over	14.3%	4.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
White (non-Hispanic)	92.1%	66.5%
Black or African American	0.1%	30.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.5%	0.8%
Hispanic or Latino	2.3%	2.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
No high school diploma	1.0%	13.5%
High school graduate	28.5%	42.2%
Some college or associate's	31.4%	29.3%
Bachelor's degree	28.6%	8.7%
Graduate or professional degree	10.4%	6.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
Drove alone	74.4%	60.9%
Carpooled	6.4%	5.0%
Public transit	2.1%	15.9%
Walked	0.0%	5.3%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	16.3%	12.9%
Other means	0.7%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
1-unit, detached	86.8%	33.2%
1-unit, attached	8.2%	15.7%
2 to 4 units	3.5%	23.7%
5 to 19 units	1.5%	14.8%
20 or more units	0.0%	9.6%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	3.0%

Poverty & households

	Cheswick	Wilmerding
Poverty rate	6.5%	29.1%
Average household size	2.17	2.05
Mean commute (minutes)	28	42
Median year structure built	1955	1941