The borough is named for General William Jenkins Worth, and is the smallest municipality in Jefferson County.

[3] Jimmy Slagle, Major League Baseball player, was born in Worthville.

As of the census[6] of 2000, there were eighty-five people, thirty-one households and twenty-four families residing in the borough.

12.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.5% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.

There were no families and 2.2% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteen and none of those over sixty-four.