Effort vs Mountainhome

A side-by-side comparison of Effort and Mountainhome: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Effort has the higher population (2,499 vs 880 in Mountainhome). Effort has the higher median household income ($127,929 vs $88,924 in Mountainhome). Effort has the higher median home value ($280,500 vs $252,000 in Mountainhome).

Population, income & housing

	Effort	Mountainhome
Population	2,499	880
Median age	45.9 yrs	45.5 yrs
Median household income	$127,929	$88,924
Median home value	$280,500	$252,000
Median gross rent	$2,043	—
Housing units	871	358
Homeownership rate	89.9%	89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.7%	14.0%
Unemployment rate	6.4%	2.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Effort	Mountainhome
Population	2,575 → 2,499 (-3.0%)	1,047 → 880 (-16.0%)
Median household income	$93,657 → $127,929 (+36.6%)	$33,059 → $88,924 (+169.0%)
Median home value	$162,300 → $280,500 (+72.8%)	$161,600 → $252,000 (+55.9%)
Median gross rent	$998 → $2,043 (+104.7%)	$835 → $775 (-7.2%)

Effort

Population

2,5752,499

Median household income

$93,657$127,929

Median home value

$162,300$280,500

Median gross rent

$998$2,043

Mountainhome

Population

1,047880

Median household income

$33,059$88,924

Median home value

$161,600$252,000

Median gross rent

$835$775

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Effort	Mountainhome
Under 5	7.2%	7.5%
5 to 17	8.0%	6.7%
18 to 24	5.7%	15.9%
25 to 34	13.7%	7.4%
35 to 44	12.6%	8.4%
45 to 54	17.4%	25.7%
55 to 64	16.3%	8.2%
65 to 74	7.9%	20.2%
75 and over	11.2%	0.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Effort	Mountainhome
White (non-Hispanic)	54.3%	64.5%
Black or African American	8.6%	0.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.9%
Asian	0.0%	21.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	4.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	23.7%	9.3%
Hispanic or Latino	9.2%	3.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Effort	Mountainhome
No high school diploma	5.0%	1.0%
High school graduate	31.6%	57.7%
Some college or associate's	39.7%	27.3%
Bachelor's degree	15.1%	12.5%
Graduate or professional degree	8.5%	1.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Effort	Mountainhome
Drove alone	88.6%	81.2%
Carpooled	2.3%	7.2%
Public transit	1.4%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	6.1%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	7.7%	5.5%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Effort	Mountainhome
1-unit, detached	86.5%	84.9%
1-unit, attached	10.3%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	8.1%
5 to 19 units	1.7%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	1.5%	7.0%

Poverty & households

	Effort	Mountainhome
Poverty rate	2.9%	5.9%
Average household size	2.95	2.85
Mean commute (minutes)	49	32
Median year structure built	1986	1983