What is the population of Plum borough?

Plum borough has 26,873 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #23 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.

What is the median household income in Plum borough?

Median household income in Plum borough is $98,475 a year, 25.4% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,156 a month and the median home value is $218,600, so rent absorbs about 14.1% of median household income.

Is Plum 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 Plum borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Plum, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Plum, Pennsylvania (Plum, PA — Census place “Plum borough”) is 26,873 residents, ranking #23 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $98,475, the median home is worth $218,600 and median gross rent runs $1,156 a month. Looking for the Plum Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 4 ZIP codes serve Plum, PA: 15068, 15139, 15147, 15239.

Population: 26,873Plum borough residents
Median household income: $98,475Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $218,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,156Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 80.8%Owner-occupied households

Plum ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Plum.

The Plum PA ZIP code list below covers 4 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Plum borough

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Plum borough median would spend about 14.1% 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 3.1% of residents and 80.8% of households own their home.

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

Plum borough, PA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Plum borough is a small city in Pennsylvania, with 26,873 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #23 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 43.5 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 Plum borough earn a median of $98,475 a year, 25.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 38% 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 3.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Plum borough is valued at $218,600, 27.9% below the national figure and 13% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,156 a month, 17.8% below the national figure, or roughly $13,872 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.1% 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. 80.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 Plum borough?: Plum borough has 26,873 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #23 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
What is the median household income in Plum borough?: Median household income in Plum borough is $98,475 a year, 25.4% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Plum borough?: Median gross rent is $1,156 a month and the median home value is $218,600, so rent absorbs about 14.1% of median household income.
Is Plum 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 Plum borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Plum 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.