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SheetPA-CHESTERBROOK-PA · Chesterbrook, PA 5,439 pop · income 93rd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Chesterbrook
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chesterbrook on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Walnut Ridge · lowest
47,612
Walnut Ridge · lowest
47,612 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #1
Mather · near
140,941
Mather · near
140,941 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Los Olivos · near
140,968
Los Olivos · near
140,968 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Chesterbrook · this city
140,972
Chesterbrook · this city
140,972 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Rio Verde · near
141,020
Rio Verde · near
141,020 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Tega Cay · near
141,037
Tega Cay · near
141,037 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
East Douglas · highest
141,042
East Douglas · highest
141,042 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Chesterbrook on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 5,439.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Chesterbrook lands in the 93rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
93rd
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Chesterbrook, PA
5,439 people live in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Chesterbrook report a median income of $140,972 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.2%. Chesterbrook's housing stock carries a median value of $432,200, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. About 79.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 70.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Pennsylvania tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Pennsylvania at 97.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,225 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Pennsylvania run around $260, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 67.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Chesterbrook's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chesterbrook, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Chesterbrook?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Chesterbrook?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chesterbrook?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Pennsylvania, the closest population matches are Sayre (5,444 residents, $55,393 income); Tyrone (5,421 residents, $55,568 income); Shillington (5,462 residents, $77,289 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Walnut Ridge, AR (5,440 residents); Palermo, CA (5,440 residents); Cicero, IN (5,441 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.2% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.6 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
A
City profile score · Chesterbrook, PA
85/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
79.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A+
$140,972
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living C-
97.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Chesterbrook profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 79.0%
Poverty rate: 99/100 (A+) · 0.2%
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $140,972
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
How does Chesterbrook compare to other US cities?
Here's how Chesterbrook stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income93% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Chesterbrook against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Pennsylvania only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Pennsylvania-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Chesterbrook near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chesterbrook ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chesterbrook only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#60 of 1,765
97th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#71 of 1,790
96th percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#1,471 of 1,856
21st percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#18 of 1,861
99th percentile in Pennsylvania
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Pennsylvania only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
93rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Chesterbrook's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$432,20020th percentilemore affordable than 20% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Chesterbrook's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,033 of 15,516
More affordable than 55% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,892 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Chesterbrook sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,033 of 15,516 and #5,892 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$140,972Chesterbrook, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chesterbrook, PA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Chesterbrook, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)79.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,439
Median Income
$140,972
Median Home Value
$432,200
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
0.2%
Labor force participation
70.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
79.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.8%
Carpool
5.5%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
2.5%
Work from Home
17.7%
Other
0.9%
Based on 3,040 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Pennsylvania statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $260
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Pennsylvania at $260 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are Pennsylvania statewide averages, not a meter reading for Chesterbrook. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Pennsylvania's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.6 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Chesterbrook is $1,225/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Pennsylvania statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Pennsylvania statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Chesterbrook sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chesterbrook compares to similar-size Pennsylvania cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.