Railroad, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Railroad borough is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 286 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1596 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 20% of them. The median age here is 32.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Railroad borough earn a median of not published a year. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 16.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Railroad borough is valued at $211,400, 30.3% below the national figure and 9% above the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,026 a month, 27% below the national figure, or roughly $12,312 across a full year. 39.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 286 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Railroad borough against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Railroad borough because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.