Oil City vs Woodland Heights

A side-by-side comparison of Oil City and Woodland Heights: population, income, housing, and more.

Oil City and Woodland Heights are places in Pennsylvania. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Oil City has the higher population (9,517 vs 1,446 in Woodland Heights). Oil City has the higher median household income ($52,688 vs $51,607 in Woodland Heights). Woodland Heights has the higher median home value ($110,300 vs $66,600 in Oil City).

Population, income & housing

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
Population	9,517	1,446
Median age	42.5 yrs	35.0 yrs
Median household income	$52,688	$51,607
Median home value	$66,600	$110,300
Median gross rent	$799	$862
Housing units	4,661	741
Homeownership rate	61.4%	50.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.7%	17.8%
Unemployment rate	6.7%	17.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
Population	9,846 → 9,517 (-3.3%)	1,129 → 1,446 (+28.1%)
Median household income	$39,750 → $52,688 (+32.5%)	$46,063 → $51,607 (+12.0%)
Median home value	$51,700 → $66,600 (+28.8%)	$107,300 → $110,300 (+2.8%)
Median gross rent	$612 → $799 (+30.6%)	$670 → $862 (+28.7%)

Oil City

Population

9,8469,517

Median household income

$39,750$52,688

Median home value

$51,700$66,600

Median gross rent

$612$799

Woodland Heights

Population

1,1291,446

Median household income

$46,063$51,607

Median home value

$107,300$110,300

Median gross rent

$670$862

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
Under 5	3.6%	11.8%
5 to 17	17.9%	16.4%
18 to 24	8.6%	5.4%
25 to 34	10.3%	16.3%
35 to 44	14.1%	3.8%
45 to 54	12.6%	10.9%
55 to 64	13.6%	12.7%
65 to 74	10.8%	17.7%
75 and over	8.5%	5.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
White (non-Hispanic)	94.1%	89.6%
Black or African American	0.7%	2.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.8%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.7%	6.5%
Hispanic or Latino	1.7%	1.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
No high school diploma	11.3%	6.9%
High school graduate	47.3%	58.6%
Some college or associate's	23.7%	16.7%
Bachelor's degree	11.0%	15.7%
Graduate or professional degree	6.8%	2.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
Drove alone	75.6%	85.5%
Carpooled	14.5%	9.1%
Public transit	0.5%	0.0%
Walked	3.5%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.6%	3.0%
Other means	0.3%	2.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
1-unit, detached	73.1%	78.0%
1-unit, attached	0.7%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	15.2%	16.9%
5 to 19 units	6.1%	4.2%
20 or more units	4.7%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.2%	0.9%

Poverty & households

	Oil City	Woodland Heights
Poverty rate	18.0%	22.9%
Average household size	2.31	2.33
Mean commute (minutes)	20	39
Median year structure built	1938	1955