Reading vs Wyomissing

A side-by-side comparison of Reading and Wyomissing: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Reading has the higher population (94,836 vs 11,100 in Wyomissing). Wyomissing has the higher median household income ($88,214 vs $45,599 in Reading). Wyomissing has the higher median home value ($326,800 vs $109,800 in Reading).

Population, income & housing

	Reading	Wyomissing
Population	94,836	11,100
Median age	31.7 yrs	50.4 yrs
Median household income	$45,599	$88,214
Median home value	$109,800	$326,800
Median gross rent	$1,018	$1,746
Housing units	36,289	5,415
Homeownership rate	39.7%	67.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.7%	56.4%
Unemployment rate	12.1%	3.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Reading	Wyomissing
Population	88,232 → 94,836 (+7.5%)	10,473 → 11,100 (+6.0%)
Median household income	$32,176 → $45,599 (+41.7%)	$81,178 → $88,214 (+8.7%)
Median home value	$73,200 → $109,800 (+50.0%)	$245,600 → $326,800 (+33.1%)
Median gross rent	$811 → $1,018 (+25.5%)	$1,330 → $1,746 (+31.3%)

Reading

Population

88,23294,836

Median household income

$32,176$45,599

Median home value

$73,200$109,800

Median gross rent

$811$1,018

Wyomissing

Population

10,47311,100

Median household income

$81,178$88,214

Median home value

$245,600$326,800

Median gross rent

$1,330$1,746

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Reading	Wyomissing
Under 5	7.7%	3.5%
5 to 17	20.7%	13.4%
18 to 24	12.2%	5.8%
25 to 34	13.7%	10.6%
35 to 44	12.8%	10.2%
45 to 54	11.5%	12.9%
55 to 64	10.7%	14.3%
65 to 74	6.6%	11.2%
75 and over	4.1%	18.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Reading	Wyomissing
White (non-Hispanic)	20.3%	83.5%
Black or African American	7.8%	1.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.7%	2.5%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.5%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.1%	1.4%
Hispanic or Latino	68.6%	11.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Reading	Wyomissing
No high school diploma	27.3%	2.4%
High school graduate	38.7%	22.0%
Some college or associate's	22.3%	19.2%
Bachelor's degree	8.2%	29.6%
Graduate or professional degree	3.5%	26.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Reading	Wyomissing
Drove alone	63.7%	78.5%
Carpooled	15.8%	7.7%
Public transit	3.9%	0.3%
Walked	5.4%	1.7%
Bicycle	0.1%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.0%	11.3%
Other means	6.1%	0.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Reading	Wyomissing
1-unit, detached	12.3%	50.1%
1-unit, attached	52.2%	16.5%
2 to 4 units	18.5%	5.1%
5 to 19 units	7.2%	8.9%
20 or more units	9.4%	19.4%
Mobile home & other	0.3%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Reading	Wyomissing
Poverty rate	27.0%	6.0%
Average household size	2.79	2.14
Mean commute (minutes)	24	21
Median year structure built	1938	1969