Mackeyville, PA population, income and housing data

Mackeyville CDP is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 300 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1579 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 21% of them. The median age here is 44.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Mackeyville CDP earn a median of $70,313 a year, 10.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. 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 2.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mackeyville CDP is valued at $159,400, 47.5% below the national figure and 17% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,844 a month, 31.2% above the national figure, or roughly $22,128 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.5% 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 2.3×, 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. 72.6% 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.

Mackeyville CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.5% of median income while homes cost only 2.3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 300 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Mackeyville CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.