Chester Heights, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Chester Heights borough is a small town in Pennsylvania, with 2,922 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #484 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 43.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Chester Heights borough earn a median of $110,729 a year, 41% above the national figure of $78,538 and 56% above 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 5.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chester Heights borough is valued at $296,600, 2.2% below the national figure and 54% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,361 a month, 67.9% above the national figure, or roughly $28,332 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25.6% 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 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 76.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.