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Shoemakersville, PA population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania (Shoemakersville, PA — Census place “Shoemakersville borough”) is 1,334 residents, ranking #850 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $75,050, the median home is worth $169,900 and median gross rent runs $1,087 a month. Looking for the Shoemakersville Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Shoemakersville, PA: 19555.
- Population
- 1,334Shoemakersville borough residents
- Median household income
- $75,050Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $169,900Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,087Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 38.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 63.3%Owner-occupied households
Shoemakersville ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Shoemakersville.
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What the numbers mean in Shoemakersville borough
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Shoemakersville borough median would spend about 17.4% 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 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 9.3% of residents and 63.3% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Shoemakersville borough, PA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Shoemakersville borough is a small town in Pennsylvania, with 1,334 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #850 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 57% of them. The median age here is 38.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Shoemakersville borough earn a median of $75,050 a year, 4.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 6% 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 9.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Shoemakersville borough is valued at $169,900, 44% below the national figure and 12% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,087 a month, 22.7% below the national figure, or roughly $13,044 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.4% 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 2.3×, 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. 63.3% 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.
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.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Pennsylvania.
- West Mayfield borough 1,326
- Hasson Heights CDP 1,335
- Middleburg borough 1,321
- Avis borough 1,335
- Atglen borough 1,319
- Pen Mar CDP 1,338
- Mill Hall borough 1,313
- Salix CDP 1,339
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Shoemakersville borough?
- Shoemakersville borough has 1,334 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #850 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
- What is the median household income in Shoemakersville borough?
- Median household income in Shoemakersville borough is $75,050 a year, 4.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Shoemakersville borough?
- Median gross rent is $1,087 a month and the median home value is $169,900, so rent absorbs about 17.4% of median household income.
- Is Shoemakersville borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Shoemakersville borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Shoemakersville 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.