
Pennsylvania · FIPS 42127
Wayne ZIP codes — Wayne County, Pennsylvania
Quick answer
Wayne County is home to 51,189 residents with a median household income of $62,182 and a median home value of $228,200. 81.9% of households own their home and 12.2% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Wayne ZIP code? 21 ZIP code areas fall inside Wayne County, Pennsylvania, listed in full below.
- Population
- 51,189Wayne County residents
- Median household income
- $62,182Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $228,200Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $979Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 48.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 81.9%Owner-occupied households
Wayne County, PA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Wayne County is a small city in Pennsylvania, with 51,189 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 48.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Wayne County earn a median of $62,182 a year, 20.8% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 12.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Wayne County is valued at $228,200, 24.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $979 a month, 30.4% below the national figure, or roughly $11,748 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.9% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 81.9% 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. 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.
ZIP codes in Wayne County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Wayne County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Pennsylvania
Largest Census places in Pennsylvania by population.
- Philadelphia city 1,582,432
- Pittsburgh city 303,620
- Allentown city 125,320
- Reading city 94,836
- Erie city 94,156
- Bethlehem city 77,069
- Scranton city 76,074
- Lancaster city 57,683
- Levittown CDP 50,930
- Harrisburg city 50,092
- York city 44,830
- Wilkes-Barre city 44,217
Nearby counties
Other counties in Pennsylvania.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Wayne County?
- Wayne County has 51,189 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Wayne County?
- Median household income in Wayne County is $62,182 a year, 20.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Wayne County?
- Median gross rent is $979 a month and the median home value is $228,200, so rent absorbs about 18.9% of median household income.
- Is Wayne County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Wayne County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Wayne County 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.