Dauphin, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Dauphin borough is a small town in Pennsylvania, with 1,065 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #961 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 52% of them. The median age here is 33.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Dauphin borough earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 11.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dauphin borough is valued at $185,500, 38.9% below the national figure and 4% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $961 a month, 31.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,532 across a full year. 80.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

The Census withheld household income for Dauphin borough because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.