
Bucks County · Pennsylvania
ZIP code 19020
- Population
- 57,079
- Median income
- $80,158
- Median home
- $344,400
- Sales tax
- 6%
ZCTA residents
Household, past 12 months
Owner-occupied value
Pennsylvania state rate
Quick answer
ZIP 19020 sits in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is home to 57,079 people. Median household income is $80,158, the median home is worth $344,400 and median gross rent is $1,549. 58.1% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (Pennsylvania state rate).
- County
- Bucks County
- State
- Pennsylvania (PA)
- Area codes
- Not published
- Metro area
- Outside covered metros
FIPS 42017
1,833 ZIPs covered
No NANPA match for this ZIP
Rate jurisdiction used for tax
The numbers for 19020
American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.
- Population
- 57,079ZIP 19020 residents
- Median household income
- $80,158Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $344,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,549Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 41.6 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 58.1%Owner-occupied households
ZIP 19020 in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
ZIP 19020 is a small city in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with 57,079 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #8 of 1,833 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 41.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 ZIP 19020 earn a median of $80,158 a year, 2.1% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 11.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 19020 is valued at $344,400, 13.5% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,549 a month, 10.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,588 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 58.1% 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.
No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.
Reading ZIP 19020 in context
How 19020 sits inside Bucks County and Pennsylvania.
ZIP 19020 is tabulated inside Bucks County, Pennsylvania, one of 48 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,833 across Pennsylvania. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. 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 19020 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.
Against its own county, 19020 reports a median household income of $80,158, 28% below the $112,038 county median, and 15% above the $70,000 typical PA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $344,400, 24% below the county figure and 84% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,549 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 19020 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 19020 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 19020
What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.
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.
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 19020 compares
ZIP 19020 against the median ZIP in Bucks County and across Pennsylvania.
| Measure | ZIP 19020 | County median | State median | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $80,158 | $112,038 | $70,000 | +15% |
| Median home value | $344,400 | $454,700 | $187,400 | +84% |
| Median gross rent | $1,549 | $1,542 | $953 | +63% |
| Population | 57,079 | 8,195 | 2,230 | +2460% |
Medians are computed across the 48 ZIP areas in Bucks County and the 1833 ZIP areas in Pennsylvania.
Statewide rank
Where this ZIP places among all 1833 Pennsylvania ZIP areas.
- Income
- #514
- Home value
- #175
- Population
- #8
richer than 69% of 1,668 state ZIPs
above 90% of 1,672 state ZIPs
larger than 100% of 1,833 state ZIPs
Comparable ZIP codes
Pennsylvania ZIP areas with almost the same household income.
Nearby ZIP codes
Other ZIP codes filed under Bucks County.
Adjacent ZIP Codes
Other ZIP codes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
ZIP 19020 questions
Common questions about this ZIP code.
- Where is ZIP code 19020?
- ZIP 19020 lies mostly in Bucks 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 19020?
- Pennsylvania charges 6% statewide, plus any county, city or district rate that applies locally.
- Is 19020 expensive to live in?
- Median rent runs $1,549 a month, about 23% of median household income, and the median home is worth $344,400 — +84% 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.
Keep going
Related pages for this area.
Sources & transparency
- US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates — 2019-2023 ACS 5-year — population, income, housing
- Census 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file — County assignment by largest land-area overlap
- Pennsylvania Department of Revenue — Sales tax rates and local add-ons
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.