Crawford County's small-city core where manufacturing heritage shapes modern margins
Meadville anchors a mid-sized Pennsylvania metro where durable goods employment and a liberal-arts college electorate create an unusual demographic mix, producing competitive results that don't track cleanly with either urban or rural statewide patterns.
| Group | Meadville, PA | National |
|---|---|---|
▶White (Non-Hispanic)(13) | 95.1% | 57.4% |
▶Black / African American(6) | 1.7% | 12.2% |
Multiracial / Other | 1.6% | 4.0% |
▶Hispanic / Latino(11) | 1.1% | 19.3% |
▶Asian(6) | 0.4% | 6.0% |
▶Middle Eastern / North African(3) | 0.2% | 0.9% |
Native American / Alaska Native | 0.2% | 0.9% |
Catholic-Evangelical edge: -30.8pp (vs national 4.5pp). A strongly Evangelical-leaning religious profile, which nationally correlates with Republican-leaning rural and exurban communities.
| Tradition | % Pop | % Adherents | US Pop | US Adherents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18.7% | 45.7% | — | — | |
| 12.6% | 30.8% | — | — | |
| 7.9% | 19.3% | — | — | |
| 0.9% | 2.3% | — | — | |
| 0.6% | 1.5% | — | — | |
| 0.2% | 0.4% | — | — | |
Non-religiousPopulation | 59.1% | — | — | — |
Who lives in the Meadville, PA metro area? 348,919 residents across 4 counties.
18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree — 15pp below the national average. Places with similar education levels vote R+15 on average nationally.
Scale, voting-age share, and this geography's footprint inside the national electorate.
Income, attainment, and ownership indicators that often shape coalition structure and turnout behavior.
Age structure, language use, and nativity signals that explain how this geography differs from state and nation.
| Offices | Margin A | Margin B | Split |
|---|---|---|---|
| President vs Senate | R+39.2 | R+34.8 | 4.5pp |