State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Pennsylvania
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,209 ± $5 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 48.2% ± 0.4 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 24.9% ± 0.3 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $48,360. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | $1,209 ± $5 | 48.2% | 24.9% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Pennsylvania
- Adams County$1,115 median gross rent · 44% rent burden
- Allegheny County$1,153 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- Armstrong County$785 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
- Beaver County$890 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- Bedford County$784 median gross rent · 49.9% rent burden
- Berks County$1,181 median gross rent · 52% rent burden
- Blair County$885 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Bradford County$901 median gross rent · 38.8% rent burden
- Bucks County$1,605 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Butler County$1,041 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Cambria County$739 median gross rent · 42.5% rent burden
- Cameron County$689 median gross rent · 41.2% rent burden
- Carbon County$994 median gross rent · 43.5% rent burden
- Centre County$1,207 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Chester County$1,763 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Clarion County$798 median gross rent · 44.6% rent burden
- Clearfield County$791 median gross rent · 41.7% rent burden
- Clinton County$820 median gross rent · 43.4% rent burden
- Columbia County$943 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Crawford County$802 median gross rent · 45.4% rent burden
- Cumberland County$1,249 median gross rent · 41.7% rent burden
- Dauphin County$1,217 median gross rent · 45.4% rent burden
- Delaware County$1,372 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Elk County$719 median gross rent · 43.5% rent burden
- Erie County$904 median gross rent · 49.2% rent burden
- Fayette County$793 median gross rent · 43.5% rent burden
- Forest County$817 median gross rent · 29% rent burden
- Franklin County$1,093 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Fulton County$809 median gross rent · 36.6% rent burden
- Greene County$789 median gross rent · 39% rent burden
- Huntingdon County$810 median gross rent · 39.3% rent burden
- Indiana County$800 median gross rent · 49.1% rent burden
- Jefferson County$750 median gross rent · 43.9% rent burden
- Juniata County$756 median gross rent · 25.8% rent burden
- Lackawanna County$1,007 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Lancaster County$1,357 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Lawrence County$831 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Lebanon County$1,110 median gross rent · 46.9% rent burden
- Lehigh County$1,383 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Luzerne County$1,004 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Lycoming County$913 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- McKean County$809 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Mercer County$843 median gross rent · 45.7% rent burden
- Mifflin County$822 median gross rent · 38.7% rent burden
- Monroe County$1,393 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Montgomery County$1,683 median gross rent · 49% rent burden
- Montour County$1,142 median gross rent · 38.2% rent burden
- Northampton County$1,395 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Northumberland County$806 median gross rent · 42.6% rent burden
- Perry County$874 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
- Philadelphia County$1,397 median gross rent · 52.3% rent burden
- Pike County$1,378 median gross rent · 50.4% rent burden
- Potter County$809 median gross rent · 41% rent burden
- Schuylkill County$876 median gross rent · 42.2% rent burden
- Snyder County$929 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Somerset County$753 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- Sullivan County$775 median gross rent · 34.8% rent burden
- Susquehanna County$933 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Tioga County$863 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- Union County$974 median gross rent · 47.5% rent burden
- Venango County$795 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Warren County$755 median gross rent · 33% rent burden
- Washington County$949 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
- Wayne County$1,038 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Westmoreland County$879 median gross rent · 39.7% rent burden
- Wyoming County$943 median gross rent · 36.8% rent burden
- York County$1,193 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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