Briar Creek, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Briar Creek borough is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 896 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1045 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 32.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Briar Creek borough earn a median of $34,643 a year, 55.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 51% below the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 40.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Briar Creek borough is valued at $162,500, 46.4% below the national figure and 16% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $645 a month, 54.1% below the national figure, or roughly $7,740 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 48.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 896 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Briar Creek borough against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.