The Escape, PA population, income and housing data

The Escape CDP is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 426 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1422 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 28% of them. The median age here is 51.4 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 The Escape CDP earn a median of $48,500 a year, 38.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 32% below 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 27.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in The Escape CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,348 a month, 4.1% below the national figure, or roughly $16,176 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 33.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 65.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 51.4 puts The Escape CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 426 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare The Escape CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for The Escape CDP 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.