Coatesville, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Coatesville city is a mid-size town in Pennsylvania, with 13,323 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #60 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 34.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Coatesville city earn a median of $57,323 a year, 27% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% 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 20.4% 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 Coatesville city is valued at $160,500, 47.1% below the national figure and 17% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,464 a month, 4.1% above the national figure, or roughly $17,568 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 35.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Coatesville city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.6% of median income while homes cost only 2.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.