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Ben Avon Heights borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Ben Avon Heights borough is a Census borough of 304 people across 0.17 square miles of land, in Allegheny County. Median household income is $234,375, 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Ben Avon Heights
What Ben Avon Heights is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.17 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,751
- County holding the largest share of its areaAllegheny County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ben Avon Heights
How many people live in Ben Avon Heights
- Population304
- Median age43.2
- Population under 1877 plus or minus 19
- Share under 1825.3 percent
- Population 65 and over39 plus or minus 13
- Share 65 and over12.8 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Households107
- Family households92
- Share of households that are families86.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ben Avon Heights
Income and work in Ben Avon Heights
- Median household income$234,375
- Per capita income$89,569
- Civilian labor force176
- Employed170
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 7
- Unemployment rate3.4 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over206
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.1 percent plus or minus 23.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher86.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree45.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ben Avon Heights
Housing in Ben Avon Heights
- Housing units111
- Occupied units107
- Vacant units4 plus or minus 6
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Owner occupied107
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$542,500
- Single family units111
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ben Avon Heights
How Ben Avon Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute112 plus or minus 27
- Commuting under 15 minutes17 plus or minus 8
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.2 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more24 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more21.4 percent plus or minus 14.7
- Drove alone63.1 percent
- Carpooled1.2 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home33.3 percent plus or minus 8.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ben Avon Heights
Flood risk in Ben Avon Heights
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420011
- Currently effective map date(NSFHA)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Allegheny County, not Ben Avon Heights
Allegheny County context, not Ben Avon Heights figures
These are Allegheny County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Ben Avon Heights measurements.
- Establishments in Allegheny County33,812
- Employment at those establishments, Allegheny County709,774
- Covered employment, Allegheny County670,637
- Average annual pay, Allegheny County$78,297
- Average weekly wage, Allegheny County$1,506
- Housing units permitted, Allegheny County2,999
- Of those, single family, Allegheny County1,356
- County product, 2024, Allegheny County$132,891,899,000
- County product change over the prior year, Allegheny County4.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Allegheny County$88,274
Every figure in this section is published for Allegheny County as a whole and is not a measurement of Ben Avon Heights. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Ben Avon Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ben Avon Heights, Pennsylvania?
304, in 107 households. Ben Avon Heights borough covers 0.17 square miles of land, which is 1,751 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ben Avon Heights in?
Allegheny County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Ben Avon Heights?
$234,375. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $542,500. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Ben Avon Heights in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Ben Avon Heights appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420011, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Ben Avon Heights figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Allegheny County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Ben Avon Heights.
Is zoning published for Ben Avon Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.