Effort vs Saylorsburg

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

Effort and Saylorsburg 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 823 in Saylorsburg). Effort has the higher median household income ($127,929 vs $87,731 in Saylorsburg). Effort has the higher median home value ($280,500 vs $211,400 in Saylorsburg).

Population, income & housing

	Effort	Saylorsburg
Population	2,499	823
Median age	45.9 yrs	48.7 yrs
Median household income	$127,929	$87,731
Median home value	$280,500	$211,400
Median gross rent	$2,043	$1,380
Housing units	871	776
Homeownership rate	89.9%	35.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.7%	11.9%
Unemployment rate	6.4%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Effort	Saylorsburg
Population	2,575 → 2,499 (-3.0%)	1,042 → 823 (-21.0%)
Median household income	$93,657 → $127,929 (+36.6%)	$58,484 → $87,731 (+50.0%)
Median home value	$162,300 → $280,500 (+72.8%)	$167,200 → $211,400 (+26.4%)
Median gross rent	$998 → $2,043 (+104.7%)	$1,305 → $1,380 (+5.7%)

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

Saylorsburg

Population

1,042823

Median household income

$58,484$87,731

Median home value

$167,200$211,400

Median gross rent

$1,305$1,380

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Effort	Saylorsburg
Under 5	7.2%	0.0%
5 to 17	8.0%	6.6%
18 to 24	5.7%	5.3%
25 to 34	13.7%	33.4%
35 to 44	12.6%	0.0%
45 to 54	17.4%	7.2%
55 to 64	16.3%	32.7%
65 to 74	7.9%	3.3%
75 and over	11.2%	11.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Effort	Saylorsburg
White (non-Hispanic)	54.3%	64.6%
Black or African American	8.6%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	4.1%	0.0%
Two or more races	23.7%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	9.2%	35.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Effort	Saylorsburg
No high school diploma	5.0%	8.4%
High school graduate	31.6%	27.2%
Some college or associate's	39.7%	52.6%
Bachelor's degree	15.1%	7.6%
Graduate or professional degree	8.5%	4.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Effort	Saylorsburg
Drove alone	88.6%	95.1%
Carpooled	2.3%	0.0%
Public transit	1.4%	4.9%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	7.7%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Effort	Saylorsburg
1-unit, detached	86.5%	61.7%
1-unit, attached	10.3%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	38.3%
5 to 19 units	1.7%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	1.5%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Effort	Saylorsburg
Poverty rate	2.9%	14.5%
Average household size	2.95	1.64
Mean commute (minutes)	49	83
Median year structure built	1986	1969