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Place dossier plate
SheetPA-HATBORO-PA · Hatboro, PA 8,219 pop · income 83rd 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 Hatboro
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hatboro on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Prairie View · lowest
19,106
Prairie View · lowest
19,106 median HH income
16.4% of the leader · rank #1
Hatboro · this city
108,927
Hatboro · this city
108,927 median HH income
93.4% of the leader · rank #2
St. Pete Beach · near
108,931
St. Pete Beach · near
108,931 median HH income
93.4% of the leader · rank #3
Charlotte Hall · near
108,936
Charlotte Hall · near
108,936 median HH income
93.4% of the leader · rank #4
Eureka · near
108,947
Eureka · near
108,947 median HH income
93.4% of the leader · rank #5
Round Lake · near
108,965
Round Lake · near
108,965 median HH income
93.4% of the leader · rank #6
Breinigsville · highest
116,631
Breinigsville · highest
116,631 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Hatboro on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 8,219.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hatboro - the verdict
Hatboro ranks in the 83rd percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
83rd
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
82nd
percentile, safety
📝 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: Hatboro, PA
Pennsylvania's Hatboro is a small town, with 8,219 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Hatboro households earn a median of $108,927 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. Hatboro's housing stock carries a median value of $340,100, and the median resident age is 36.3 years. About 39.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 72.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 88 residential building permits were authorized in Hatboro (Building Boom), up 878% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Hatboro reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 580.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Pennsylvania tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 97.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Hatboro'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 population change to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hatboro, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Hatboro growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +209 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 88 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
What does the journey to work look like in Hatboro?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.6%. 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. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Hatboro?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 580.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hatboro?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Pennsylvania, the closest population matches are Castle Shannon (8,237 residents, $62,426 income); Wilson (8,196 residents, $80,928 income); Bellevue (8,186 residents, $64,888 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wynne, AR (8,220 residents); Prairie View, TX (8,220 residents); Rawlins, WY (8,217 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.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Hatboro?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 39.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
2.9%
Bachelor's degree+
39.6%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Hatboro?
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 2.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.1×
Home value
$340,100
Household income
$108,927
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
B
City profile score · Hatboro, PA
73/100
5 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.
Household income A-
$108,927
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
73 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
39.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Hatboro profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $108,927
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Violent crime: 78/100 (B+) · 73 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 74/100 (B) · 39.6%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
Where Hatboro sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hatboro's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Hatboro highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Hatboro, PA (this city): home $340,100, crime 581/100k
Wynne, AR : home $125,300, crime 4,470/100k
Prairie View, TX : home $171,900, crime 921/100k
Auburn, GA : home $232,000, crime 532/100k
Price, UT : home $189,800, crime 1,197/100k
Bay Minette, AL : home $146,500, crime 2,046/100k
Castle Shannon, PA : home $182,400, crime 348/100k
Wilson, PA : home $191,800, crime 1,691/100k
Bellevue, PA : home $177,900, crime 1,253/100k
Downingtown, PA : home $322,500, crime 2,185/100k
Brookhaven, PA : home $265,500, crime 2,847/100k
How does Hatboro compare to other US cities?
Here's how Hatboro stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
Safety82% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Pennsylvania and the picture shifts: Hatboro ranks #131 of 402 Pennsylvania cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Hatboro 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 Hatboro near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hatboro ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hatboro only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#181 of 1,765
90th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#160 of 1,790
91st percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#1,217 of 1,856
34th percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#302 of 1,861
84th 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hatboro's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hatboro's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Hatboro's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$340,10029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
Hatboro'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
#7,303 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,077 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Hatboro sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,303 of 15,516 and #6,077 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
$108,927Hatboro, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hatboro, 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 Hatboro, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,219
Median Income
$108,927
Median Home Value
$340,100
Median Age
36.3
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
72.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
580.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
72.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
508.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hatboro's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,384 residents
2021
8,394 residents
2022
8,398 residents
2023
8,418 residents
2024
8,432 residents
2025
8,593 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
88
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
88
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
9
0
$1.0M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
12
1
11
$1.2M
2022
11
11
0
$1.0M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
88
0
88
$17.0M
Permit volume increased 878% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.6%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
3.6%
Work from Home
14.1%
Other
4.0%
Based on 4,609 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 Hatboro. 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 Hatboro 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 Hatboro sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hatboro 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.