| county_name | County Population | Difficulty Reading Newsprint |
Per Cent Having Difficulty | Unable to Read Newsprint |
Per Cent Unable to Read | |||
| Adams | 78274 | 2447 | 4.12 | 375 | 0.63 | |||
| Allegheny | 1336449 | 54992 | 5.16 | 9403 | 0.88 | 5.863636 | 5.848346 | |
| Armstrong | 73478 | 3193 | 5.57 | 548 | 0.96 | |||
| Beaver | 186093 | 7723 | 5.31 | 1280 | 0.88 | |||
| Bedford | 47919 | 1960 | 5.30 | 331 | 0.90 | |||
| Berks | 336523 | 12297 | 4.70 | 1945 | 0.74 | |||
| Blair | 130542 | 5437 | 5.43 | 925 | 0.92 | |||
| Bradford | 60967 | 2326 | 5.11 | 372 | 0.82 | |||
| Bucks | 541174 | 15055 | 3.67 | 2256 | 0.55 | |||
| Butler | 152013 | 5062 | 4.35 | 796 | 0.68 | |||
| Cambria | 163029 | 7189 | 5.71 | 1247 | 0.99 | |||
| Cameron | 5913 | 263 | 5.83 | 45 | 1.00 | |||
| Carbon | 56846 | 2461 | 5.52 | 423 | 0.95 | |||
| Centre | 123786 | 3108 | 3.09 | 442 | 0.44 | |||
| Chester | 376396 | 9995 | 3.49 | 1478 | 0.52 | |||
| Clarion | 41699 | 1556 | 4.76 | 257 | 0.79 | |||
| Clearfield | 78097 | 3301 | 5.51 | 565 | 0.94 | |||
| Clinton | 37182 | 1460 | 5.01 | 236 | 0.81 | |||
| Columbia | 63202 | 2356 | 4.68 | 377 | 0.75 | |||
| Crawford | 86169 | 3268 | 5.00 | 525 | 0.80 | |||
| Cumberland | 195257 | 5792 | 3.81 | 837 | 0.55 | |||
| Dauphin | 237813 | 8431 | 4.58 | 1299 | 0.71 | |||
| Delaware | 547651 | 19125 | 4.48 | 3067 | 0.72 | |||
| Elk | 34878 | 1325 | 4.96 | 204 | 0.77 | |||
| Erie | 275572 | 9388 | 4.50 | 1464 | 0.70 | |||
| Fayette | 145351 | 7007 | 6.18 | 1275 | 1.13 | |||
| Forest | 4802 | 219 | 5.96 | 36 | 0.99 | |||
| Franklin | 121082 | 4174 | 4.51 | 659 | 0.71 | |||
| Fulton | 13837 | 541 | 5.16 | 94 | 0.90 | |||
| Greene | 39550 | 1702 | 5.68 | 315 | 1.05 | |||
| Huntingdon | 44164 | 1624 | 5.11 | 274 | 0.86 | |||
| Indiana | 89994 | 3187 | 4.53 | 513 | 0.73 | |||
| Jefferson | 46083 | 1960 | 5.59 | 340 | 0.97 | |||
| Juniata | 20625 | 756 | 4.85 | 122 | 0.78 | |||
| Lackawanna | 219039 | 9968 | 5.75 | 1777 | 1.03 | |||
| Lancaster | 422822 | 12791 | 4.06 | 1917 | 0.61 | |||
| Lawrence | 96246 | 4166 | 5.55 | 688 | 0.92 | |||
| Lebanon | 113744 | 3890 | 4.50 | 584 | 0.68 | |||
| Lehigh | 291130 | 10219 | 4.49 | 1613 | 0.71 | |||
| Luzerne | 328149 | 14875 | 5.74 | 2623 | 1.01 | |||
| Lycoming | 118710 | 4403 | 4.91 | 720 | 0.80 | |||
| Mckean | 47131 | 1864 | 5.33 | 291 | 0.83 | |||
| Mercer | 121003 | 4856 | 5.20 | 796 | 0.85 | |||
| Mifflin | 46197 | 1919 | 5.41 | 323 | 0.91 | |||
| Monroe | 95709 | 3031 | 4.14 | 451 | 0.62 | |||
| Montgomery | 678111 | 21293 | 4.05 | 3305 | 0.63 | |||
| Montour | 17735 | 599 | 4.64 | 94 | 0.73 | |||
| Northampton | 247105 | 8727 | 4.53 | 1389 | 0.72 | |||
| Northumberland | 96771 | 4411 | 5.83 | 759 | 1.00 | |||
| Perry | 41172 | 1313 | 4.24 | 197 | 0.64 | |||
| Philadelphia | 1585577 | 74754 | 6.11 | 13397 | 1.09 | |||
| Pike | 27966 | 1023 | 4.79 | 159 | 0.75 | |||
| Potter | 16717 | 638 | 5.16 | 93 | 0.75 | |||
| Schuylkill | 152585 | 7261 | 6.02 | 1297 | 1.08 | |||
| Snyder | 36680 | 1183 | 4.32 | 179 | 0.65 | |||
| Somerset | 78218 | 3354 | 5.62 | 589 | 0.99 | |||
| Sullivan | 6104 | 281 | 5.95 | 49 | 1.03 | |||
| Susquehanna | 40380 | 1548 | 5.10 | 243 | 0.80 | |||
| Tioga | 41126 | 1560 | 4.95 | 252 | 0.80 | |||
| Union | 36176 | 1043 | 3.97 | 153 | 0.58 | |||
| Venango | 59381 | 2295 | 5.17 | 378 | 0.85 | |||
| Warren | 45050 | 1681 | 4.98 | 272 | 0.81 | |||
| Washington | 204584 | 8622 | 5.34 | 1451 | 0.90 | |||
| Wayne | 39944 | 1547 | 5.16 | 243 | 0.81 | |||
| Westmoreland | 370321 | 15108 | 5.17 | 2546 | 0.87 | |||
| Wyoming | 28076 | 952 | 4.54 | 153 | 0.73 | |||
| York | 339574 | 11153 | 4.26 | 1689 | 0.64 | |||
| total | 11881643 | |||||||
| Pennsylvania | 11881643 | 453004 | 4.92 | 74994 | 0.81 | |||
| United States | 2.49E+08 | 9635746 | 5.16 | 1582406 | 0.85 | |||