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SheetPA-PHOENIXVILLE-PA · Phoenixville, PA 19,062 pop · income 74th 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 Phoenixville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Phoenixville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
McKeesport · lowest
31,854
McKeesport · lowest
31,854 median HH income
32.5% of the leader · rank #1
Cramerton · near
94,390
Cramerton · near
94,390 median HH income
96.3% of the leader · rank #2
Orange Lake · near
94,394
Orange Lake · near
94,394 median HH income
96.3% of the leader · rank #3
Phoenixville · this city
94,411
Phoenixville · this city
94,411 median HH income
96.3% of the leader · rank #4
Little Rock · near
94,423
Little Rock · near
94,423 median HH income
96.3% of the leader · rank #5
Essex Junction · near
94,423
Essex Junction · near
94,423 median HH income
96.3% of the leader · rank #6
Badger · highest
98,042
Badger · highest
98,042 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Phoenixville 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: 19,062.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Phoenixville - the verdict
Nationally, Phoenixville sits in the 74th percentile for household income and the 84th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
84th
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: Phoenixville, PA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 19,062 residents in Phoenixville, a small town within Pennsylvania. Median household income here is $94,411 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.3%. Phoenixville's housing stock carries a median value of $348,200, and the median resident age is 35.2 years. About 53.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 74.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 123 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 925% from five years earlier. Phoenixville reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 526.7 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 54.4°F with 45.1 inches of precipitation per year.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,225 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Pennsylvania's average monthly utility costs around $260 (state average). Commute times here average 19.7 minutes, with 62.8% driving alone and 25.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Phoenixville'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Phoenixville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
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.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Phoenixville?
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 West Chester (19,235 residents, $81,492 income); Lansdale (18,865 residents, $86,460 income); West Mifflin (19,338 residents, $70,335 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Olivehurst, CA (19,071 residents); East Riverdale, MD (19,043 residents); Beltsville, MD (19,086 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Phoenixville?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 54.4°F, with 45.1 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Pennsylvania is 67.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
What does the education layer cover for Phoenixville?
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 8 public schools within the city match. 53.3% 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 Phoenixville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.7 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Phoenixville?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.7×
Home value
$348,200
Household income
$94,411
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Phoenixville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 526.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 77% 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.
Total reported rate
526.7
Violent rate
83.7
Property rate
443.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Phoenixville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,767 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 123 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.
2020 estimate
18,589
2025 estimate
20,356
Period change
+9.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 6.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.6 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
B-
City profile score · Phoenixville, PA
68/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A
53.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B+
84 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B
$94,411
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.3%
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.
Phoenixville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 53.3%
Violent crime: 75/100 (B+) · 84 /100k
Household income: 74/100 (B) · $94,411
Poverty rate: 57/100 (C) · 6.3%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
Where Phoenixville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Phoenixville'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 - Phoenixville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Phoenixville, PA (this city): home $348,200, crime 527/100k
Sylvania, OH : home $233,700, crime 804/100k
Sheridan, WY : home $295,300, crime 1,126/100k
West Chester, PA : home $481,300, crime 1,465/100k
Lansdale, PA : home $319,000, crime 1,104/100k
West Mifflin, PA : home $131,400, crime 3,021/100k
Johnstown, PA : home $42,100, crime 3,221/100k
McKeesport, PA : home $69,800, crime 4,259/100k
How does Phoenixville compare to other US cities?
Phoenixville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
Safety84% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Pennsylvania alone, Phoenixville ranks #121 of 402 Pennsylvania cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Phoenixville 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 Phoenixville near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Phoenixville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Phoenixville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#319 of 1,765
82nd percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#147 of 1,790
92nd percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#857 of 1,856
53rd percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#141 of 1,861
92nd 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 84th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Phoenixville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Phoenixville'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 Phoenixville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$348,20028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Phoenixville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,679 of 15,516
More affordable than 38% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,677 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.7×, Phoenixville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,679 of 15,516 and #1,677 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
$94,411Phoenixville, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Phoenixville, 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 Phoenixville, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)53.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)74.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,062
Median Income
$94,411
Median Home Value
$348,200
Median Age
35.2
Poverty Rate
6.3%
Labor force participation
74.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
53.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
526.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
83.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
443.0
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
54.4°F
Annual Precipitation
45.1"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Phoenixville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
18,589 residents
2021
19,069 residents
2022
19,370 residents
2023
19,898 residents
2024
20,154 residents
2025
20,356 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
123
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
118
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
12
4
8
$0.8M
2020
240
35
205
$16.3M
2021
143
41
102
$18.6M
2022
285
33
252
$37.5M
2023
123
61
62
$19.8M
2024
123
5
118
$17.3M
Permit volume increased 925% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.7 minutes
Drive Alone
62.8%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
3.6%
Work from Home
25.1%
Other
1.0%
Based on 11,306 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 Phoenixville. 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 Phoenixville 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 Phoenixville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Phoenixville 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.