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Franklin County · Pennsylvania

ZIP code 17210

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 17210 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
167

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
$217,900

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
6%

Pennsylvania state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 17210 sits in Franklin County, Pennsylvania and is home to 167 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth $217,900 and median gross rent is —. 88.2% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (Pennsylvania state rate).

County
Franklin County

FIPS 42055

State
Pennsylvania (PA)

1,833 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 17210

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
167ZIP 17210 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
$217,900Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
61.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
88.2%Owner-occupied households

ZIP 17210 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 17210 is a very small community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, with 167 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1623 of 1,833 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 61.4 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 ZIP 17210 earn a median of not published a year. 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 13.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 17210 is valued at $217,900, 28.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 88.2% 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.

A median age of 61.4 puts ZIP 17210 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 167 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 17210 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for ZIP 17210 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.

Reading ZIP 17210 in context

How 17210 sits inside Franklin County and Pennsylvania.

ZIP 17210 is tabulated inside Franklin County, Pennsylvania, one of 28 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,833 across Pennsylvania. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 17210 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 17210 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $217,900, 4% below the county figure and 16% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Pennsylvania charges 6% statewide, and local governments overlapping 17210 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 17210 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.

Sales tax in 17210

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
6%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$6Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$60Before any exemptions

Pennsylvania levies 6% statewide, and counties, cities and special districts inside this ZIP can add their own local rate on top. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
$1,131/mo20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
13.2%Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 17210 compares

ZIP 17210 against the median ZIP in Franklin County and across Pennsylvania.

MeasureZIP 17210County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$73,416$70,000—
Median home value$217,900$225,900$187,400+16%
Median gross rent—$969$953—
Population1676402,230-93%

Medians are computed across the 28 ZIP areas in Franklin County and the 1833 ZIP areas in Pennsylvania.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 1833 Pennsylvania ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

above 63% of 1,672 state ZIPs

#616
Population

larger than 11% of 1,833 state ZIPs

#1,623

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Franklin County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

ZIP 17210 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 17210?
ZIP 17210 lies mostly in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 17210?
Pennsylvania charges 6% statewide, plus any county, city or district rate that applies locally.
Is 17210 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth $217,900 — +16% against the typical Pennsylvania ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 17210, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.