What is the population of Media borough?

Media borough has 5,868 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #222 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.

What is the median household income in Media borough?

Median household income in Media borough is $86,219 a year, 9.8% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,359 a month and the median home value is $398,400, so rent absorbs about 18.9% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 4.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Media borough is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Media, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Media, Pennsylvania (Media, PA — Census place “Media borough”) is 5,868 residents, ranking #222 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $86,219, the median home is worth $398,400 and median gross rent runs $1,359 a month. Looking for the Media Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Media, PA: 19063.

Population: 5,868Media borough residents
Median household income: $86,219Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $398,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,359Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 38.1%Owner-occupied households

Media ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Media.

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

19063

What the numbers mean in Media borough

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Media borough median would spend about 18.9% 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 4.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 4.1% of residents and 38.1% of households own their home.

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

Media borough, PA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Media borough is a mid-size town in Pennsylvania, with 5,868 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #222 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 43 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 Media borough earn a median of $86,219 a year, 9.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 21% above 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 4.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Media borough is valued at $398,400, 31.3% above the national figure and 106% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,359 a month, 3.3% below the national figure, or roughly $16,308 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.9% 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 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 38.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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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What is the population of Media borough?: Media borough has 5,868 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #222 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
What is the median household income in Media borough?: Median household income in Media borough is $86,219 a year, 9.8% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Media borough?: Median gross rent is $1,359 a month and the median home value is $398,400, so rent absorbs about 18.9% of median household income.
Is Media borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Media borough is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Media 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.