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Place dossier plate
SheetPA-KING-OF-PRUSSIA-PA · King of Prussia, PA 25,025 pop · income 84th 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 King of Prussia
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest King of Prussia on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lebanon · lowest
47,439
Lebanon · lowest
47,439 median HH income
21.6% of the leader · rank #1
Westmont · near
111,589
Westmont · near
111,589 median HH income
50.8% of the leader · rank #2
Solon · near
111,597
Solon · near
111,597 median HH income
50.8% of the leader · rank #3
King of Pruss… · this city
111,600
King of Pruss… · this city
111,600 median HH income
50.8% of the leader · rank #4
Harpers Ferry · near
111,600
Harpers Ferry · near
111,600 median HH income
50.8% of the leader · rank #5
Lake Hopatcong · near
111,614
Lake Hopatcong · near
111,614 median HH income
50.8% of the leader · rank #6
Dix Hills · highest
219,636
Dix Hills · highest
219,636 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 King of Prussia 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: 25,025.
Nationally, King of Prussia sits in the 84th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
84th
percentile, household income
77th
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: King of Prussia, PA
25,025 people live in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in King of Prussia brings in $111,600 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Home values in King of Prussia run a median of $396,500, and the median resident age is 36.5 years. Educational attainment runs 63.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 7 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. The average commute for King of Prussia workers runs 17.6 minutes, with 64.6% driving alone and 26.7% working from home. 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 King of Prussia'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For King of Prussia, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for King of Prussia?
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 Lebanon (26,600 residents, $47,439 income); Pottstown (23,392 residents, $56,174 income); Plum (26,873 residents, $98,475 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sienna, TX (25,025 residents); Loma Linda, CA (25,021 residents); Newport, RI (25,029 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.
How far does income reach against housing in King of Prussia?
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 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for King of Prussia?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 63.9% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in King of Prussia?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.6 minutes.
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.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
B+
City profile score · King of Prussia, PA
76/100
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+
63.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$111,600
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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).
King of Prussia profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 63.9%
Household income: 82/100 (A-) · $111,600
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
How does King of Prussia compare to other US cities?
King of Prussia measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income84% higher than other cities
Home value77% 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 King of Prussia 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 King of Prussia near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, King of Prussia ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares King of Prussia only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#165 of 1,765
91st percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#105 of 1,790
94th percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#1,261 of 1,856
32nd percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#75 of 1,861
96th 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
84th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How King of Prussia's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$396,50023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% 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
King of Prussia's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,189 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,546 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, King of Prussia sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,189 of 15,516 and #1,546 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$111,600King of Prussia, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context King of Prussia, 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 King of Prussia, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)63.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,025
Median Income
$111,600
Median Home Value
$396,500
Median Age
36.5
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
68.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
63.9%
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.6 minutes
Drive Alone
64.6%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
26.7%
Other
0.9%
Based on 14,660 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 King of Prussia. 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 King of Prussia 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 King of Prussia sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How King of Prussia 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, NCES CCD, 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.