Elkins Park, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Elkins Park CDP is a mid-size town in Pennsylvania, with 7,286 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #159 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 50.2 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 Elkins Park CDP earn a median of $129,773 a year, 65.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 82% above the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 6.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Elkins Park CDP is valued at $366,700, 20.9% above the national figure and 90% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,625 a month, 15.6% above the national figure, or roughly $19,500 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15% 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 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.9% 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.

A median age of 50.2 puts Elkins Park CDP 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.