Doylestown, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Doylestown borough is a mid-size town in Pennsylvania, with 8,322 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #129 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 51 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Doylestown borough earn a median of $93,672 a year, 19.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 32% 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 6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Doylestown borough is valued at $491,700, 62.1% above the national figure and 155% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,754 a month, 24.8% above the national figure, or roughly $21,048 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.5% 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 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 49.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 51 puts Doylestown borough well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

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.