ZIP code 19102

ZIP 19102 is a mid-size town in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, with 5,946 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #578 of 1,833 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 30.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 19102 earn a median of $114,844 a year, 46.2% above 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 15.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 19102 is valued at $412,200, 35.9% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,249 a month, 60% above the national figure, or roughly $26,988 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.5% 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 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 20.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 19102 is tabulated inside Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, one of 49 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,833 across Pennsylvania. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. 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 19102 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 19102 reports a median household income of $114,844, 87% above the $61,257 county median, and 64% above the $70,000 typical PA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $412,200, 54% above the county figure and 120% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,249 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 19102 carries 8% at the register, assembled from the Philadelphia jurisdiction stack: the Pennsylvania state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 19102 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

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 19102 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.