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Colwyn, Pennsylvania.

A borough in Delaware County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Delaware County’s.

Living in Colwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Colwyn is a borough of 2,474 people in Delaware County. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Delaware County work in schools and health care, then professional services.

People 2,474 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Colwyn for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.0% Delaware County, August 2026; 5.3% a year before
Homes 45% lived in by their owners; 55% rented
  • 790households
  • 12%of adults have a degree
  • 34 mintypical commute
  • 5%work from home

What people in Delaware County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care30%
  • Professional and business services13%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Banks, insurance and property9%
  • Manufacturing8%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 219,222 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 41° and 26°; warmest in July, 88° and 70° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 41° 26° F M A M J J 88° 70° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 41° and 26°; warmest in July, 88° and 70° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 41° 26° F M A M J J 88° 70° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 23 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philadelphia International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Delaware County

  1. Villanova UniversityUniversity or college3,306
  2. The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing3,071
  3. Contemporary Services2,644
  4. Crozer Chester Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,932FTE
  5. Lower Merion SDSchool district1,636FTE
  6. Widener UniversityUniversity or college1,428
  7. Upper Darby SDSchool district1,249FTE
  8. Elwyn Media CampusGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,152

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,480 people in all across the county; Colwyn has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. Winter weatherRelatively high
  2. Heat wavesRelatively moderate
  3. Strong windRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colwyn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Delaware County.