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Elim, Pennsylvania.

A community in Cambria County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Cambria County’s.

Living in Elim, Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Elim, in Cambria County, had 3,364 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $65,482 a year and half less, against $58,418 across Cambria County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cambria County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cambria County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 3,364 in the 2020 census; median age 44.0
Household income $65,482 the median, give or take $11,838 · Cambria County: $58,418
Unemployment 4.6% Cambria County, August 2026; 6.2% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Elim for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,540households
  • 18%of adults have a degree
  • 6%below the poverty line
  • 23 mintypical commute

What people in Cambria County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care29%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Manufacturing11%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cambria County had 46,956 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 33° and 19°; warmest in July, 79° and 61° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 33° 19° F M A M J J 79° 61° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 33° and 19°; warmest in July, 79° and 61° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 33° 19° F M A M J J 79° 61° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 61°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Johnstown Cambria County Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Elim

  1. McIlwain School Bus Lines156
  2. Quality Life Services WestmontNursing homes87
  3. Commonwealth Technical InstituteTwo-year college34
  4. Ascendance TrucksTrucks, road, merchant wholesalers27
  5. SHS JohnstownElementary and secondary schools25

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 295 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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. LightningRelatively high
  2. Strong windRelatively moderate
  3. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  4. HailRelatively moderate
  5. Cold wavesRelatively moderate
  6. Inland floodingRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elim’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Cambria County.