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Mount Pocono, PA population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania (Mount Pocono, PA — Census place “Mount Pocono borough”) is 3,086 residents, ranking #462 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $86,096, the median home is worth $170,000 and median gross rent runs $840 a month. Looking for the Mount Pocono Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Mount Pocono, PA: 18344.
- Population
- 3,086Mount Pocono borough residents
- Median household income
- $86,096Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $170,000Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $840Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 47.5 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 64.6%Owner-occupied households
Mount Pocono ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Mount Pocono.
The Mount Pocono PA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Mount Pocono borough
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Mount Pocono borough median would spend about 11.7% 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 2.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 8.3% of residents and 64.6% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Mount Pocono borough, PA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Mount Pocono borough is a small town in Pennsylvania, with 3,086 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #462 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 76% of them. The median age here is 47.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Mount Pocono borough earn a median of $86,096 a year, 9.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 21% 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 8.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Mount Pocono borough is valued at $170,000, 44% below the national figure and 12% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $840 a month, 40.3% below the national figure, or roughly $10,080 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.7% 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×, 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. 64.6% 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.
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.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Pennsylvania.
- Pleasant Hill CDP 3,072
- Edgewood borough 3,089
- Salunga CDP 3,066
- McSherrystown borough 3,094
- Pitcairn borough 3,065
- Churchill borough 3,102
- Wormleysburg borough 3,058
- Strasburg borough 3,104
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Mount Pocono borough?
- Mount Pocono borough has 3,086 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #462 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
- What is the median household income in Mount Pocono borough?
- Median household income in Mount Pocono borough is $86,096 a year, 9.6% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Mount Pocono borough?
- Median gross rent is $840 a month and the median home value is $170,000, so rent absorbs about 11.7% of median household income.
- Is Mount Pocono borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Mount Pocono borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Mount Pocono borough data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.