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SheetPA-SELINSGROVE-PA · Selinsgrove, PA 5,655 pop · income 33rd 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 Selinsgrove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Selinsgrove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Punxsutawney · lowest
43,097
Punxsutawney · lowest
43,097 median HH income
17.2% of the leader · rank #1
West Alexandr… · near
58,480
West Alexandr… · near
58,480 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #2
Selinsgrove · this city
58,484
Selinsgrove · this city
58,484 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #3
Mountain Home · near
58,486
Mountain Home · near
58,486 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #4
Lamar · near
58,487
Lamar · near
58,487 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #5
Union Point · near
58,487
Union Point · near
58,487 median HH income
23.4% of the leader · rank #6
Pelham Manor · highest
250,001
Pelham Manor · highest
250,001 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 Selinsgrove 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: 5,655.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Selinsgrove - the verdict
Selinsgrove ranks in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 93rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
41st
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
93rd
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: Selinsgrove, PA
Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove is a small town, with 5,655 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Selinsgrove brings in $58,484 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.2%. Selinsgrove's housing stock carries a median value of $195,400, and the median resident age is 24.4 years. 35.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 55.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Selinsgrove reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 290.2 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 puts Selinsgrove's yearly average temperature at 50.7°F with 43.1 inches of precipitation per year and 29.0 inches of snowfall.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $260 across Pennsylvania, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 67.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Selinsgrove'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 schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Selinsgrove, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits.
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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Selinsgrove?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for Selinsgrove?
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. 35.1% 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 Selinsgrove?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 53.7%. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Selinsgrove?
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 Palmerton (5,624 residents, $71,471 income); Punxsutawney (5,689 residents, $43,097 income); Mount Carmel (5,695 residents, $52,667 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Temple, GA (5,655 residents); Tracyton, WA (5,658 residents); Kayenta, AZ (5,651 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Selinsgrove?
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 50.7°F, with 43.1 inches of precipitation and 29.0 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
67.4
Annual precipitation
43.1 in
Mean temperature
50.7°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Is Selinsgrove growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -226 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -4.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
5,714
2025 estimate
5,488
Period change
-4.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Selinsgrove?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 290.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 87% 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
290.2
Violent rate
36.3
Property rate
253.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 5.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.6 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
C
City profile score · Selinsgrove, PA
58/100
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.
Violent crime A
36 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.2%
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.
Household income F
$58,484
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Selinsgrove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 87/100 (A) · 36 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 67/100 (B-) · 35.1%
Poverty rate: 64/100 (C+) · 5.2%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
Household income: 32/100 (F) · $58,484
Where Selinsgrove sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Selinsgrove'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 - Selinsgrove highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Selinsgrove, PA (this city): home $195,400, crime 290/100k
Temple, GA : home $210,800, crime 1,039/100k
Yoakum, TX : home $134,100, crime 992/100k
Palmerton, PA : home $161,500, crime 711/100k
Punxsutawney, PA : home $102,500, crime 773/100k
Mount Carmel, PA : home $74,700, crime 1,231/100k
Hollidaysburg, PA : home $190,500, crime 641/100k
New Holland, PA : home $225,500, crime 783/100k
How does Selinsgrove compare to other US cities?
Here's how Selinsgrove stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value41% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
Safety93% 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: Selinsgrove ranks #74 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 Selinsgrove 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 Selinsgrove near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Selinsgrove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Selinsgrove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,169 of 1,765
34th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#676 of 1,790
62nd percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#963 of 1,856
47th percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#401 of 1,861
78th 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 93rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Selinsgrove's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Selinsgrove'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 Selinsgrove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$195,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 59% 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
Selinsgrove's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,302 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,773 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.3×, Selinsgrove sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,302 of 15,516 and #6,773 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
$58,484Selinsgrove, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Selinsgrove, 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 Selinsgrove, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,655
Median Income
$58,484
Median Home Value
$195,400
Median Age
24.4
Poverty Rate
5.2%
Labor force participation
55.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
290.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
36.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
253.9
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
50.7°F
Annual Precipitation
43.1"
Annual Snowfall
29.0"
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
Selinsgrove's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,714 residents
2021
5,684 residents
2022
5,545 residents
2023
5,505 residents
2024
5,495 residents
2025
5,488 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.3M
2020
1
1
0
$0.1M
2021
1
1
0
$0.3M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
2
2
0
$0.5M
2024
1
1
0
$0.5M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
53.7%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
27.3%
Work from Home
10.4%
Other
1.5%
Based on 2,918 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 Selinsgrove. 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 Selinsgrove 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 Selinsgrove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Selinsgrove 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.