What is the population of Duryea borough?

Duryea borough has 5,054 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #270 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.

What is the median household income in Duryea borough?

Median household income in Duryea borough is $64,028 a year, 18.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Duryea borough?

Median gross rent is $1,056 a month and the median home value is $142,900, so rent absorbs about 19.8% of median household income.

Is Duryea borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Duryea borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Duryea, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Duryea, Pennsylvania (Duryea, PA — Census place “Duryea borough”) is 5,054 residents, ranking #270 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $64,028, the median home is worth $142,900 and median gross rent runs $1,056 a month. Looking for the Duryea Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Duryea, PA: 18642.

Population: 5,054Duryea borough residents
Median household income: $64,028Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $142,900Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,056Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 71.1%Owner-occupied households

Duryea ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Duryea.

The Duryea PA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

18642

What the numbers mean in Duryea borough

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Duryea borough median would spend about 19.8% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 21.4% of residents and 71.1% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Duryea borough, PA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Duryea borough is a mid-size town in Pennsylvania, with 5,054 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #270 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 39.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Duryea borough earn a median of $64,028 a year, 18.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% below the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 21.4% 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 Duryea borough is valued at $142,900, 52.9% below the national figure and 26% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,056 a month, 24.9% below the national figure, or roughly $12,672 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 71.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Duryea borough?: Duryea borough has 5,054 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #270 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
What is the median household income in Duryea borough?: Median household income in Duryea borough is $64,028 a year, 18.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Duryea borough?: Median gross rent is $1,056 a month and the median home value is $142,900, so rent absorbs about 19.8% of median household income.
Is Duryea borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Duryea borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Duryea borough data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.